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GeoNames announced they're now offering commercial web services. From the entry: "A commercial version of our popular web services is now available to everybody. The commercial web services offer faster response time and higher uptime than their free siblings and come with two types of service level agreements. We recommend that professional users and mission critical applications upgrade to this premium service."
GeoNames frequently made the headlines here. See also selected stories below.
Related Stories
Technology: Geonames.org as Data Provider?
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The Geospatial Semantic Web Blog describes why GeoNames.org is his favorite geo-data provider. The short entry worth the read and underlines many great features of GeoNames: "It features about 2.2 million records of geographical information. [...] Many reasons why Geonames.org is interesting: First, it provides a unified representation of geographical data from different providers. [...] Second, it provides web service API for querying geographical information. [...] Third, Geonames web service supports both JSON and XML output."
We introduced GeoNames a few months ago.
Technology: GeoNames Does Geocoding for Microsoft's Popfly
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The Geonames blog informs us the new Popfly mashup tool uses Geonames for geocoding. From the blog: " Popfly is kind of a foolproof, slick version of Yahoo! pipes based on the Silverlight browser plugin. For geocoding there is a predefined block GeoNames to access geonames.org web services."
Technology: GeoNames Webservice Client for Java r0.5 Released
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GeoNames has been covered regularly on Slashgeo (see related stories below), but not the GeoNames Webservice Client which just released Java r0.5. The post: "
Version 0.5 of the GeoNames Webservice Client for Java has been released today. The release includes support for all four administrative levels, a bug fix for the address reverse geocoder, addition of timezone to Toponyms, enumeration for the feature class, and some minor changes.
Java is by far not the only programming language you find GeoNames client libraries for. Some libraries we know about are :
* Java : GeoNames Webservice Client
* Ruby : GeoNams Ruby API
* Perl : Geo-GeoNames
* Python : geopy
* Python : geoname.py by Zindep
* Lisp : cl-geonames
* PHP : SOLMETRA Maps"
Technology: GeoNames Founder Discusses the Project and More 1 comment
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Inkslinger writes "
Marc Wick discusses the GeoNames project: how it started, what it uses to keep running, where it is being used and where the project is heading. He also discusses the exciting use of geo-data in mobile applications: "In the mobile space I see the most interesting applications on devices with integrated GPS chip. Reverse geocoding the latitude / longitude provided by the GPS chip will enable applications to assign place names to the current location. I think of a camera that automatically assigns or tags photos with place names and maybe even the names of objects visible on them," he says. Other topics he talks about include how an increasingly GPS-enabled world is driving the need for free data and the politics of data access..." See also many previous GeoNames stories below.
Industry: GeoNames Dataset Updated
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The GeoNames Blog reports : "In the last days the newest GNS release (2008-01-28) has been integrated into GeoNames. The GNS dataset is maintained by the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, a US department of defense support agency. During this load we have updated 73′000 and inserted 44′000 new toponyms. We have only updated records that have not been modified by GeoNames users or other sources."
To get a more detailed listing and links to the NGA site, please visit the GeoNames blog.
To get a more detailed listing and links to the NGA site, please visit the GeoNames blog.
Technology: Hierarchical Toponym Browser with GeoNames' GeoTree
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GeoNames announced the GeoTree project which basically is a hierarchical toponym browser. Try GeoTree yourself. From the announcement: "It allows to drill down the continents and the administrative divisions of a country in an explorer like fashion. To the right of the tree view a map shows the toponym selected. [...] Moving the mouse over the name of an administrative division will not only focus the map, it will also display a larger version of the coat of arms. [...] GeoTree is using the GeoNames hierarchical webservices."
Some related stories copied below, but much more with a search.
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