WOEID
A WOEID is a unique 32-bit reference identifier, originally defined by GeoPlanet and now assigned by Yahoo!, that identifies any feature on Earth. In 2009, Yahoo! released GeoPlanet's WOEID data to the public, with the last release on 1 June 2012, after which Yahoo! decided to cease making the data downloadable until they "determine a better way to surface the data as a part of the service".
WOEIDs are used by a number of other projects, including Flickr, OpenStreetMap, Twitter, and .
A successor to the WOEID project is .
WOEID of some popular locations on Earth
From WOEID Search Engine:- 4118 - Toronto
- 44418 - London
- 615702 - Paris
- 2295019 - New Delhi
- 2295380 - Varanasi
- 2442047 - Los Angeles
- 2459115 - New York
- 2487956 - San Francisco
- 23424851 - Iran
- 29128560 - Kaithi
Example
E.g. Berlin does not know about Germany, which itself doesn't know about Europe and so forth. GeoPlanet records, or places as they are called by Yahoo!, always have a reference to its parent place and therefore offer relations between places like the following:If you take e.g. our company's district you will get the following family tree:
- Deutschland
- * Bundesland Berlin
- ** Stadtkreis Berlin
- *** Berlin
- **** Ortsteil Pankow
- **** Ortsteil Prenzlauer Berg
- **** Ortsteil Wedding
- *** Suan Luang
- ****...