Yahoo WOEID, Flickr shapefiles - GeoNames | Google Groups
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-datas...
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?

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