First, let me say that Yahoo location API (http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/) is something I wanted for a long time. I am very happy that you release this...
Issue #2: placetypes is incomplete try this: http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/place/2449494 you will discover that the placeTypeName code is "35" (Historical...
Issue #3: places.q is incomplete try this: http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/places.q('atwater');count=50 It returns only 6 places, 2 are missing: WOEID:2357186 in...
Issue #4: parent of Zipcode=County! Try this: http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/place/12797671/parent the parent of this zipcode return a county name. try this: ...
Issue #5: parent of country? Try this: http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/place/23424977/parent I was looking for the parent of a country and I get nothing, but if...
Thank you for reporting issues with our new Internet Location Platform API. We are working toward our general release of the API in the near future, and we...
We have confirmed that two place types (35 and 36) are missing in the response to the /placetypes request. This will be fixed shortly. Eddie Babcock Y! Geo...
We have confirmed that /places sometimes does not return all possible results. This was originally a feature designed to ensure that only the best results...
Postal codes may serve a single town, multiple towns, or a portion of a town. In the case of one postal code serving one town, we represent the postal code as...
We have confirmed that continent is returned in the ancestors response. This is an error, since continent is not an administrative area. This will be fixed...
Thank you for all answers on my issues. For this one, I am a little skeptical. But perhaps we do not interpret the same word/definition. For me, the ancestors...
Check this: http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/place/2452273 No Boundingbox. Is this normal or this place is still "under construction". Philippe Furlan ...
I check this place on Fire Eagle. BoundingBox is available there. I was thinking that Fire Eagle use the same database than Y!Geo. Here is what I got from Fire...
Thank you for continuing to investigate the Internet Location Platform; I've passed your reports on Bounding Boxes onto our Engineering team and will reply...
Today, I discover some error in my log file: Status 406 Not Acceptable Here is the link: http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/places.q('san francisco');count=100 ...
I found the solution of my problem: For my XML request, I was using "text/xml" for the accept param. I replaced it by "*/*", now everything is back in order. I...
The ILP software was recently updated to correct several bugs that have been reported. One of the bugs was that the service returned an XML response if it...
Hi, I asked this question in yws-maps but was sent here. I think it would be a good idea to promote this group on http://developer.yahoo.com/geo which is...
This is an informal 'heads-up' for all all developers of the Internet Location Platform Developer Preview. Two quick notes: - First, you will need an appID to...
The .type filter does not apply to the /places collection. You cannot filter this collection by placetype. You will need to filter the results on the client...
We've had great interest in the Internet Location Platform since we launched a developer preview at Where 2.0 in May. Huge thanks for all of your feedback,...
When I request a parent for a Finnish town that also has a Swedish name, the /place/{woeid}/parent returns the Swedish name as the parent. When I request for...
If I send this request http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/places then I get an error in XML, which is good. However http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/places?format=json...
If you make a call like this: http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/place/28350818?appid=[yourappid] that is supposed to return the the time zone for India. This used...
This one didn't turn up to be a language specific issue after all. When I look at the list of belongtos, there are names in both languages, as there should be,...
... Hi Dave, Thanks for bringing this to our attention; this is a great problem report as it provides not only a description of what you've found but also lots...
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