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A
gazetteer or big list of places
, each with a stable identifier and some number of descriptive properties about that location.
A
gazetteer or big list of places
, each with a stable identifier and some number of descriptive properties about that location.
WHAT
Who's On First is a gazetteer of all the places in the world from continents to neighbourhoods and venues but what does that mean, really?
26M
WOF records
DOWNLOAD
We publish Who's On First data in a variety of formats ranging from raw GeoJSON files, to "bundled" slices to SQLite databases (and more to come soon).
BLOG
Read the sixty-thousand words (and counting) of thinking about the project, as it evolves.
BROWSE
Browse the data with our public “spelunker” and investigate all the different places on this big planet-ball we all live on.
DOCUMENTATION
The nitty-gritty details of the Who's On First project.
21M
venues in WOF
API
Who's On First has an Application Programming Interface (API) so your robots can talk to our robots!
219
countries in WOF
CODE
Software packages for working with Who's On First in a variety of languages.
TOOLS
A handy toolbox of utilities for working with Who's On First
try it out, retrieve
neighbourhoods in
Seoul
by running the following
api
method
$ curl -X GET 'https://places.whosonfirst.org/api/rest/?method=whosonfirst.places.getDescendants&access_token={ACCESS_TOKEN}&id=102026327'