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Lat/Longs for Natural Features and Facilites?
Posted on: Tue, 11/11/2008 - 21:34
netventures
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It does not look like 3.1 provides lat/long coordinates for either natural features or facilities.  Are there plans to provide this in a future release?

This would really enable more mapping applications to use your API directly.  While getting back lat/longs for cities is very helpful, being able to get location info for natural features and facilities would be even better.

Thanks for a great product!

  

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Posted on: Wed, 11/12/2008 - 14:03 #1
MichalF
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I think we're in agreement - geo coordinates for additional entity types can be very useful for many applications.
We definitely plan on rolling this out in one of the releases next year.
And thanks for the feedback.

Regards,

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Posted on: Tue, 12/09/2008 - 17:45 #2
netventures
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Thanks for the response.  Can't wait for that feature to be implemented.

Also, are there any plans to expand the gazeteer you're using so that a wider range of geographic entities like schools, parks, etc. can be recognized?  Geonames.org and the USGS' Geographic Names Information System are both great resources for US geographic entities.