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Placeopedia

API

All data created on Placeopedia and YourHistoryHere is being made freely available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license version 2.5 for use by whoever is interested. This is part of our effort to offer coders and users an easy, standard system for mapping annotation that interoperates easily with current and future geographic-based tools and systems.

Google Earth auto-update

To add Placeopedia to Google Earth, such that it automatically shows you the latest additions on the map you're looking at, auto-updating as you move around, please use this KML file.

Feeds of 50 latest additions

XML data
RSS feed
KML file (for Google Earth)

To restrict the RSS or XML feed to a particular geographic area, specify a bounding box in the URL as follows:
http://www.placeopedia.com/cgi-bin/rss.cgi?topleft_long=-1;topleft_lat=54;bottomright_long=1;bottomright_lat=50 or http://www.placeopedia.com/cgi-bin/postsxml.cgi?topleft_long=-1;topleft_lat=54;bottomright_long=1;bottomright_lat=50

Similarly, to specify the number of results you would like returned, use the num_results parameter.

http://www.placeopedia.com/cgi-bin/rss.cgi?num_results=10
or
http://www.placeopedia.com/cgi-bin/postsxml.cgi?num_results=10

Dump of all locations

Apologies for taking so long to make this available!

About the site

Hello, and welcome to Placeopedia, a simple site where you can connect Wikipedia articles with places, and then make use of our database either to browse, or syndicate the whole lot. We hope that lots of people will connect places they know with their corresponding Wikipedia article, and then our syndicated data can be used as a general geographic lookup table for Wikipedia.
Latest news: We've removed email confirmation, as it was making it too time-consuming to add many posts. We've also made the map a little bit wider, so New Zealanders don't feel left out; and while the map still shows only the latest 15 additions, we've added a count underneath the map of the number of pins not shown on the map. Zoom in and pan around to make them appear.
We've also set up a public discussion list for people interested in the development of the open source software that Placeopedia runs on.