LINK

Yahoo! has released their WOEID names/relationship database as CC-

BY-3.0:

http://www.ygeoblog.com/2009/05/announcing-geoplanet-data/

The GeoPlanet Data does not contain any coordinate information, though

Flickr has also released a set of shapefiles as CC0, derived from WOEID

lat/lon geotagged photos:

http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/05/21/flickr-shapefiles-public-datas...

This seems of interest to GeoNames. It could be cool to have a mapping

of GNIS identifiers to WOEIDs. Would that be within the mission of

GeoNames?