GeoNames API
Geonames is a geographical database with web services that let users extract useful information about different places, such as weather, timezone and post codes. The GeoNames geographical database covers all countries and contains over eight million placenames that are available for download free of charge. Users can edit, correct and add new names using a wiki interface.
Geonames provides a suite of 36 Webservices covering the following categories:
Fulltext search
Place Hierarchy
Wikipedia
Postal Codes
Reverse Geocoding
Earthquakes
Weather
The APIs use RESTful protocol and responses vary in format between XML, JSON, RDF, CSV, TXT, RSS and KML.
Specs
No
Single purpose API
No
REST
JSONP, RDF, CSV, KML, URI Query String/CRUD, XML, TXT
RDF, XML, JSON, RSS, JSONP, CSV, KML
No
Yes
No
Followers (331)
Developers (44)
API Mashups (90)
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myMeetingTime is a tool for helping people connect across time zones. Leveraging timezone data from IANA (via TimezoneDB) and mashing it up with geo location names from GeoNames, myMeetingTime is...
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University papers and educational ebooks and documents.
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Job search that utilises indeed.com, simplyhired.com, careerbuilder.com API-s.
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