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Who’s On First

Who’s on First is a gazetteer of places.

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Who’s On First Toggle navigation Who’s On First browse documentation code download blog 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' contributing license [email protected]