Data sets tagged with "geo"

Digital Element IP Intelligence Geolocation

A geolocation API with 20 fields of search results, all customized to your IP query. Search by IP address to return data about a geographical area, including country, region, city, internet connection speed, global coordinates, postal and country codes, time zone, and even daylight savings observation status. Looking for more dimensions of IP searchable data? Try the ...
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Wikipedia Articles

Did you ever want to correlate Wikipedia articles with geographic locations? You know, so you can figure out whose castle that is on the hill you just drove past, know whether there’s a natural or supernatural phenomenon nearby, or find a tiny museum in your neighborhood? With the Wikipedia Articles API, you can swiftly sift through ~300k Wikipedia entries to find ...
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Business Places by Locationary

The Business Places by Locationary API delivers quality business information based on your geographically defined query. Business information for queries may include business name, address, business type, country, city, state, postal code, and geometry type. Locationary provides an impressive volume of business information, that is also rich with precise detail and ...
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Foursquare Places

The Foursquare Places API delivers uniquely rich information about venues, worldwide. Where many geolocation providers will deliver venue categories described across broad types: bars, restaurants, gyms, colleges, grocery stores, etc, Foursquare data is unique in the venue type depth provided: for example, bars are further classified as sports, gay, dive, wine, whiskey, ...
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American Community Survey (Topline)

The 2009 American Community Survey (ACS) Topline API provides basic demographic data based on your geographically defined query. This geo to ACS data API searches by lat/long coordinates to retrieve ACS data about a geographical area, including education levels, household income, race statistics, household size, gender and age groups. This API is part of the Infochimps ...
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Geonames Places

The Geonames Places API locates all places within a specified area. Places are any geographic points that can be named. In other words, within a defined area, any geographic point that is “named” will appear as a match for your custom query. The Geonames API database includes over 10 million geographical names and 7.5 million unique features. The combined volume ...
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Zillow Neighborhoods

Zillow Neighborhoods retrieves geo data pertaining to neighborhoods within defined geometric parameters. Lat/long coordinates may return details for large areas like cities or towns, which can be dissected further into specific neighborhoods. Neighborhood Boundaries provides an important element of specificity for geo queries: Neighborhood distinctions are a critical ...
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NCDC Weather

The NCDC Weather API provides detailed weather data based on your geographically defined query. Weather data points for your query may include dew point, precipitation, snow depth, temperature, visibility, and wind speed details. The API is versatile in its ability to retrieve data by lat/long coordinates, bounding box or quadkey. It provides a simple solution for ...
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Word List - 10,000+ Common Place Names

U.S. place names for more than 10,000 entries. This U.S. place name list is available in a simple, alphabetically-ordered .txt format, making it convenient for reference, spell-checking, or in more sophisticated application, for developers looking to build a custom location tool or database. The entries represent a sampling of U.S. place names: 10,196 places in total.
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Wire Centers, Area Code and Exchanges USA & Canada, (NPA/NXX)

As of April 1999, there were 105,291 NPA/NXX’s (area code plus exchanges) registered for use in the USA and Canada. These prefixes are served by “central offices” located at some 24644 “wire centers”. It is at these wire centers that “local loops” to customers are terminated and branch circuits to other offices originate. This map shows the distribution of ...
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GeoNames.org Postal Code files - US Zip Code Geolocations

Find US zip code data and corresponding latitude and longitude in a simple text format. This zip code data set is organized alphabetically and includes every US zip code, along with the corresponding city, state, latitude and longitude. Looking for more geo data? Check out the 2010 Census Demographic Profiles API to add demographics details to your geo analysis! Format ...
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US Census Bureau TIGER data

The US government’s ‘Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing’ system, usually referred to as TIGER, is based on an extensive database of US geographic information. It is county-level data that documents physical features like roads and rivers, as well as some administrative features such as Congressional districts. Data can be downloaded for ...
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The European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR) Data

The E-PRTR, the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register, was formally known as the EPER is the European Pollutant Emission Register – the first European-wide register of industrial emissions into air and water. The E-PRTR covers the 27 EU Member States as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Serbia and Switzerland. The register contains annual data reported ...
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Ordnance Survey Boundary Line

About > Boundary-Line is a specialist 1:10 000 scale boundaries dataset. It contains all levels of electoral and administrative boundaries, from district, wards and civil parishes (or communities) up to parliamentary, assembly and European constituencies. Access/re-use [Available to buy](http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/boundaryline/pricing.html) ...
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Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Elevation Data

Description From <http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/>: > … The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) obtained elevation data on a near-global scale to generate the most complete high-resolution digital topographic database of Earth. > > … > SRTM is an international project spearheaded by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the National ...
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Geograph British Isles

About The Geograph British Isles project aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of Great Britain and Ireland, and you can be part of it. License Most photos seem to be CC-BY by default. <http://www.geograph.org.uk/faq.php#opensource> Download No bulk download facility.
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UK Census - Digitised boundary datasets

About > Census area statistics (CAS) provide counts of people or households for geographical areas broken down by socio-demographic characteristics such as age, gender or employment. Digitised boundary datasets (DBDs) are a digitised representation of the underlying geography of the census. Access/Re-use Much of the material says it is Crown Copyright. It must be ...
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