WOEID

A WOEID (Where On Earth IDentifier) is a unique 32-bit reference identifier, originally defined by GeoPlanet and now assigned by Yahoo!, that identifies any feature on Earth.[1] In 2009, Yahoo! released GeoPlanet's WOEID data to the public,[2] with the last release on 1 June 2012, after which Yahoo! decided to cease making the data downloadable until they "determine a better way to surface the data as a part of the service".[3]

WOEIDs are used by a number of other projects, including Flickr,[4] OpenStreetMap,[5] Twitter,[6] WOEID Search Engine (archive link) and Nations24.

A successor to the WOEID project is Who's On First.

  1. ^ "Yahoo! WOEID Lookup". Zourbuth Project.
  2. ^ "Free geo data solutions compared: GeoNames.org vs. Yahoo! GeoPlanet". Cosmo Code. 24 January 2010.
  3. ^ "Yahoo! GeoPlanet™ Data". Yahoo!. Archived from the original on 22 August 2014. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
  4. ^ "Flickr Services: Flickr API: flickr.places.getInfo". www.flickr.com. Retrieved 2016-05-01.
  5. ^ "Key:woeid - OpenStreetMap Wiki". wiki.openstreetmap.org. Retrieved 2016-05-01.
  6. ^ "Twitter Developer Documentation". developer.twitter.com. Retrieved 2019-01-08.