Comments on: Gaze web service

By: Павло

Павло — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:34:43 +0000

Без преувеличения можно точно сказать, что пост тему раскрыл на все 100 процентов. :)

By: Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 21:16:33 +0000

You might be interested in the “geo” microforamt:

http://microformats.org/wiki/geo

By: smithvp

smithvp — Tue, 09 May 2006 07:40:26 +0000

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By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 10:53:03 +0000

The link to the CVS internet draft doesn’t seem to work any more. Maybe:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4180.txt

By: Paul Clarke

Paul Clarke — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 08:27:37 +0000

Chris,

This is exactly what a great web service – useful and easy to use.

Nice work!

By: Chris Lightfoot

Chris Lightfoot — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 14:01:15 +0000

As Francis says -- I don't think we have the appropriate geographic indexes. We could probably add them (I'd have to check whether this has any unpleasant resource requirements, but it oughtn't to) and an API to do a find-places-near-location query; best of all would be if you could offer a patch -- the relevant code is here: Gaze.pm, the web interface here: gaze-rest.cgi, and the database schema here: schema.sql. Access to our CVS repository is described here; you want module mysociety/services/Gaze, though it has some dependencies on mysociety/perllib too. There's appropriate SQL you can copy in pb/db/schema.sql, I think. I'm afraid that making a local installation is a little bit involved, but drop a mail to chris@mysociety.org or leave questions as comments here if you get stuck. (The latter might be better, since then the results are available to others too.) You could also join the (fairly low-traffic) mysociety-devchat mailing list if you like.

By: Francis Irving

Francis Irving — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 11:42:40 +0000

There isn’t an API which returns the places near a given longitude and latitude. I don’t think our database is indexed to make that easy to do – it is the other way round, to find a latitude and longitude given a place.

By: Blaine Price

Blaine Price — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 12:07:53 +0000

Sorry if I’m being daft here, but what is the format of the query paramenter? If I want to know the place names near a give lat long how do I do it? For example:
http://gaze.mysociety.org/gaze-rest?f=find_places;country=GB;lat=51.53;lon=-0.1020

wants the query paramenter, but I can’t find it documented…

Blaine

By: Chris Lightfoot

Chris Lightfoot — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 11:13:10 +0000

Carsten -- sorry about the delay answering this. As RJ says, the data for the US are from USGS; the dump for the whole country is at, http://geonames.usgs.gov/stategaz/POP_PLACES_DECI.zip and the program to parse it is here: usgs-geonames-parse (you can get that from our public CVS too).

By: RJ

RJ — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 21:56:31 +0000

The US government publish quite a lot of GIS data.
Try the geonames stuff (http://geonames.usgs.gov/)

Here’s a direct link to the data by state:
http://geonames.usgs.gov/stategaz/index.html