Who’s On First shapefile downloads in QGIS and on HDX

Shapefiles are the resurgent vinyl music format for digital mapping

This is a blog post by nvkelso. It was published on July 18, 2024 and tagged shapefile, download, whosonfirst, wof and data.

Introducing Karmashapes

Thanks to the Karmashapes initiative, Who’s On First now provides the best open data for towns and villages in India.

This is a blog post by justinelliotmeyers, stepps00 and nvkelso. It was published on June 19, 2023 and tagged whosonfirst, wof, data, import and india.

State of the Gazetteer in 2023

Since we launched in 2015, the Who’s On First places gazetteer project has grown in coverage, complexity, and supported applications. In this this post I will summarize Who’s On First’s key advantages, offer a comparative analysis of WOF and other open gazetteers, quantify our global coverage by placetype, offer score cards by country, dive into name localization, look at internationalization through the lens of disputed territories, and quantify geometry types and sources of those polygon and points, hold hands with and thank our sources, and invite collaboration.

This is a blog post by nvkelso. It was published on June 07, 2023 and tagged whosonfirst, wof, data and analysis.

Making Who’s On First more accessible

Shapefiles improve accessibility to the Who’s On First gazetteer for GIS users for a core set of standard place response properties, and discussion of making simple edits, bulk imports, and knowledge sharing in our community.

This is a blog post by nvkelso. It was published on May 31, 2023 and tagged shapefile, download, whosonfirst, wof and data.

Proposed change to the Who’s On First data license

Who’s On First is becoming a Linux Foundation project and proposes to change to the Community Data License Agreement – Permissive, Version 1.0 data license

This is a blog post by nvkelso. It was published on August 21, 2018 and tagged whosonfirst, wof, license, linuxfoundation and cdla.

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.

Improving county coverage in Who’s On First

We’ve doubled the number of counties in Who’s On First by adding data sources and introducing mesoshapes to fill the gaps

This is a blog post by stepps00, nvkelso and martin-gamache. It was published on December 08, 2016 and tagged WOF, county, whosonfirst, data, mesoshapes and Who’s On First.

Who’s On First

Mapzen is building a gazetteer of places. Not quite all the places in the world but a whole lot of them and, we hope, the kinds of places that we mostly share in common. You might want to get a cup of coffee or maybe a drink if you’ve been thinking about this sort of thing for as long as we have (or maybe longer).

This is a blog post by thisisaaronland and nvkelso. It was published on August 18, 2015 and tagged whosonfirst.