ActionScript/Flash/Flex Library for Geonames

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I’m working on a mobile application demo that relies heavily on the Geonames service and in the process started work on an ActionScript library for accessing the web service that you can find on Github. If you aren’t familiar with Geonames it’s a fantastic project. It’s a database of placenames from all over the world (over 8 million) and each has a bunch of data (including latitude and longitude) about it. The database includes everything from physical features like mountains to schools and parks in cities. And it’s all free.

The API is really basic right now and it only implements the findNearby method but hopefully it’s a start. And I want to round it out as I start to use it for more demos. It’s a really amazing amount of data.

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  • http://blog.tylerchesley.org Tyler Chesley

    I have a geonames library for Actionscript already! lol

    http://github.com/tylerchesley/GeoNamesAS3

    It’s not perfect but it’s a good start. Feel free to fork it or use it.

  • http://denisvolokh.blogspot.com Denis Volokh

    Hi,
    I would love to try your library. Recently I’ve been playing with twitter API and Google Maps, maybe with your library I can add some interesting feature.

    Here is my http://denisvolokh.blogspot.com/2010/04/twitts-at-selected-location-continue.html

  • ryanstewart

    Whoops! Sorry Tyler, I didn’t see that when I looked. I must not have been looking hard enough.

  • http://blog.tylerchesley.org Tyler Chesley

    No problem, Ryan. I haven’t really gone out of my way to advertise it yet. Just thought I would let you know. I can make you a contributor if you would like.

  • http://www.freeetime.com شات مصرية
  • http://mosgorcredit.ru/ Serg

    Прикольно. Оказалось интересно об этом читать. Спасибо. Хочу заняться тем же.

  • http://www.fandmremovalsliverpool.co.uk Removals Liverpool

    l’ll take a look at that myself Tyler, thanks for posting!

  • http://www.noflux.net John

    But are they (Geonames & the library ) SEO friendly? I doubt it!