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GeoNames WebServices Java Client 1.0 Released
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GeoNames announced the release of the GeoNames web services java client version 1.0. From the announcement: "The release includes the following changes and additions :
- implemented children and neighbours service
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- fixed a couple of minor bugs
- added and improved documentation
- support for username and token for authentication
- client failover to alternative server if the main server is not accessible. The failover server will be used for some minutes before the client will automatically try to switch back to the main server. This is a simple and efficient approach to achieve high availability for an application."
GeoNames recently introduced commercial support for their web services. They also announced they're now at 1.2 million geotagged Wikipedia entries.
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Application Domains: 500,000+ Mapped Wikipedia Entries via Geonames.org
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This unrelated Geobloggers entry lead me to the Geonames.org mapped Wikipedia entries page. See previous stories, including this Geonames.org as data provider story. From the website: "The Geonames database currently contains around 500'000 geolocated Wikipedia entries in 210 languages.
A full text search over the georeferenced Wikipedia articles is available in English, German, French, Spanish and Polish.
The data is also available as webservice : Wikipedia Webservice " A Slashgeo reader also shared this Google Maps extension for Wikimedia. Oh, and don't forget the great Geonames kml for Google Earth.
GeoNames Webservice Client for Java r0.5 Released
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GeoNames has been covered regularly on Slashgeo (see related stories below), but not the GeoNames Webservice Client which just released Java r0.5. The post: "
Version 0.5 of the GeoNames Webservice Client for Java has been released today. The release includes support for all four administrative levels, a bug fix for the address reverse geocoder, addition of timezone to Toponyms, enumeration for the feature class, and some minor changes.
Java is by far not the only programming language you find GeoNames client libraries for. Some libraries we know about are :
* Java : GeoNames Webservice Client
* Ruby : GeoNams Ruby API
* Perl : Geo-GeoNames
* Python : geopy
* Python : geoname.py by Zindep
* Lisp : cl-geonames
* PHP : SOLMETRA Maps"
Application Domains: GeoNames Web Services Goes Commercial
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GeoNames announced they're now offering commercial web services. From the entry: "A commercial version of our popular web services is now available to everybody. The commercial web services offer faster response time and higher uptime than their free siblings and come with two types of service level agreements. We recommend that professional users and mission critical applications upgrade to this premium service."
GeoNames frequently made the headlines here. See also selected stories below.
GeoNames WebServices Java Client 1.0 Released
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