WOEID
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A WOEID (Where On Earth IDentifier) is a unique 32-bit reference identifier, originally defined by GeoPlanet and now assigned by Yahoo!, that identifies any feature on Earth.[1] In 2009, Yahoo! released GeoPlanet's WOEID data to the public,[2] 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".[3]
WOEIDs are used by a number of other projects, including Flickr,[4] OpenStreetMap,[5] Twitter,[6] WOEID Search Engine (archive link) and Nations24.
A successor to the WOEID project is Who's On First.
From WOEID Search Engine:[7]
- 4118 - Toronto
- 44418 - London
- 615702 - Paris
- 2295019 - New Delhi
- 2295380 - Varanasi
- 2442047 - Los Angeles
- 2459115 - New York
- 2487956 - San Francisco
- 23424851 - Iran
- 29128560 - Kaithi