WOF in a Box (part 2)

Run Who’s On First on your own hardware.

This is a blog post by dphiffer. It was published on December 29, 2017 and tagged whosonfirst and wof-in-a-box.

Updating Who’s On First Neighbourhoods - Part III

Check out the most recent additions and updates to neighbourhoods in WOF!

This is a blog post by stepps00 and zbsingleton. It was published on December 22, 2017 and tagged whosonfirst, neighbourhoods and data.

WOF in a Box (part 1)

Run Who’s On First on your own hardware.

This is a blog post by dphiffer. It was published on December 21, 2017 and tagged whosonfirst and wof-in-a-box.

Whos On First Updates, 2017

Outlining a few one-offs, changes, and edits that were made to Who’s On First in 2017

This is a blog post by stepps00. It was published on December 14, 2017 and tagged whosonfirst and data.

Who’s On First ꞉fist-bump꞉ OpenStreetMap

The 70s were weird like that in a way that we don’t have time to discuss today except to say that Who’s On First would like to be the bucket of water to OpenStreetMap’s giant eagle.

This is a blog post by thisisaaronland. It was published on October 24, 2017 and tagged osm, sotmus and whosonfirst.

maîtres chez nous

Perhaps we can stop teaching our tools the bad habits of the past.

This is a blog post by thisisaaronland. It was published on October 17, 2017 and tagged nacis and whosonfirst.

Mapzen Places is here! And there! And everywhere.

Get geometries, hierarchies, statistics and more with the Mapzen Places API.

This is a blog post by mapzen. It was published on October 15, 2017 and tagged places, flex, data and whosonfirst.

Statoids, Mesoshapes, and Who’s On First

Check out our recent additions to the Who’s On First gazetteer, including our partnership with Statoids!

This is a blog post by stepps00 and nvkelso. It was published on September 19, 2017 and tagged whosonfirst and data.

Increasing Name Translations in Who’s On First

Outlining and visualizing the work we’ve done to increase name translations in the Who’s On First gazetteer.

This is a blog post by ndcartography and stepps00. It was published on August 22, 2017 and tagged whosonfirst, data and interns.

Geotagging WOF venues

Photography as data collection.

This is a blog post by dphiffer. It was published on August 01, 2017 and tagged boundaryissues, whosonfirst and data.

Redesigning and Rebuilding the Who’s On First website

How can we most effectively allow for understanding, visualizing, and interacting with Who’s On First?

This is a blog post by sdombkow. It was published on July 28, 2017 and tagged whosonfirst, data, design and interns.

Tackling Space and Time in Who’s On First

Using the Extended Date/Time Format to track historical records in Who’s On First.

This is a blog post by stepps00. It was published on June 29, 2017 and tagged whosonfirst, data and yugoslavia.

Simple is hard

Making something less complicated is complicated.

This is a blog post by dphiffer. It was published on May 20, 2017 and tagged boundaryissues, whosonfirst and data.

The Who’s On First API Explorer

I like to think the WOF API Explorer is another illustration of the idea that “Mapzen should always be Consumer Zero (of Mapzen services)”.

This is a blog post by thisisaaronland. It was published on April 28, 2017 and tagged whosonfirst, electron and api.

Updating Who’s On First Neighbourhoods - Part II

We’ve been busy updating neighbourhood records in Who’s On First - check them out!

This is a blog post by stepps00 and zbsingleton. It was published on April 20, 2017 and tagged whosonfirst, neighbourhoods and data.

The world is weird and wonderful!

The multifaceted maps we make simply reflect the weird and wonderful territory they represent. CSV and GeoJSON make it easier.

This is a blog post by dphiffer. It was published on April 17, 2017 and tagged boundaryissues, whosonfirst and data.

The Who’s On First API

Anything you can do by clicking around the Spelunker should be able to be automated using code.

This is a blog post by thisisaaronland. It was published on April 04, 2017 and tagged whosonfirst.

Bundling up descendants into GeoJSON

We made a handy tool that lets you download the descendants of a place as GeoJSON.

This is a blog post by burritojustice, stepps00 and dphiffer. It was published on February 10, 2017 and tagged whosonfirst and data.