[Developers] Freebase and geo location information

[Alex Genadinik]

Thank you very much for your reply,

Is there a way to know which subset of geonames is used by Freebase?

Thanks,
Alex

> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:13:32 -0400
> From: tfmorris at gmail.com
> To: developers at freebase.com
> Subject: Re: [Developers] Freebase and geo location information
> 
> > 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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