[Developers] Freebase and geo location information

Tom Morris tfmorris at gmail.com
Mon Apr 20 15:13:32 UTC 2009


> I see in the examples, that Freebase can be queried for GeoLocation.  Does
> Freebase pull
> data from the GeoNames knowledge base?  (www.geonames.org)

I was told a while back that Freebase does not include all of GNIS,
which would mean, by definition, it doesn't include all of GeoNames.

I think it would be very useful to have standard gazeteers with
non-conflicting licenes, like GeoNames, included as part of the
standard database.

Tom


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