Yahoo! Geo: Announcing GeoPlanet Data. The Yahoo! WhereOnEarth geographic data set is fantastic, but I’ve always felt slightly uncomfortable about building applications against it in case the API went away. That’s not an issue any more—the entire dataset is now available to download and use under a Creative Commons Attribution license. It’s not entirely clear what the attribution requirements are—do you have to put “data from GeoPlanet” on every page or can you get away with just tucking the attribution away in an “about this site” page? UPDATE: The data doesn’t include latitude/longitude or bounding boxes, which severely reduces its utility.
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I guess that licensing issues are the root cause for the missing lat/long etc.
I hope and guess that tucking the attribution somewhere in an about page is enough. everythin else would be impracticable at least for the company i work for (german news agency)
From my exerience Gary Gale and Tyler Bell are very open and flexible (as far as the Yahoo constaints allow them to be). Since most of the team is located in the Yahoo London offices it shouldn't be to difficult to meet with them.
Gerd Kamp - 21st May 2009 14:30 - #