Yahoo WOEID, Flickr shapefiles

[Nathan Vander Wilt]

Yahoo! has released their WOEID names/relationship database as CC-
BY-3.0:
http://www.ygeoblog.com/2009/05/announcing-geoplanet-data/

The GeoPlanet Data does not contain any coordinate information, though
Flickr has also released a set of shapefiles as CC0, derived from WOEID
+lat/lon geotagged photos:
http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/05/21/flickr-shapefiles-public-dataset-10/

This seems of interest to GeoNames. It could be cool to have a mapping
of GNIS identifiers to WOEIDs. Would that be within the mission of
GeoNames?

thanks,
-natevw
http://calftrail.com

[Marc Wick]

It is awesome and certainly within the mission of GeoNames.
I am looking forward to play with the data. It is a fantastic move by
Yahoo! to release the data under a really open license.

Best

Marc