Over the last years, GeoDB has evolved into a mature API, growing from 70,000 cities and towns to over 800,000 as of this post, offering translations in now eight different languages.
In order to continue to grow the service, prices will be increasing on September 1st as follows:
GeoDB now supports the concept of a place. A place is any populated area and can currently be one of the following types:
As part of this evolution, the following new endpoint operations are now available:
GeoDB has recently undergone the following major improvements:
GeoDB has been expanded with dependent territories (and their cities) for the following countries:
In addition, the country-details endpoint now includes calling codes.
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GeoDB now pulls in many new small cities and towns, for a total of over 525,000 populated places. As part of this update, you may now see cities with zero population. This usually just means the population data is currently not available from GeoNames/Wikipedia (but it could also mean you're seeing …
GeoDB now supports GraphQL queries. GraphQL is a relatively new technology, originally developed by Facebook as an efficient way of querying the complex relationships inherent in their social domain model.
GraphQL's primary advantage over REST is the ability to get back exactly what you want - a…
GeoDB can now easily be hosted in your own environment as a Docker container. This may make sense if you have any or all of the following requirements:
We have been working hard over the past few months and are proud to announce the following updates:
In addition to regular cities and towns, GeoDB now supports 2nd-level administrative divisions, with currently over 17,000 in the database. These typically represent counties and districts, depending on the country.
Because the difference between what is considered a city or a district can someti…
The GeoDB import process has just been updated to include thousands of additional cities and counties. The current total now stands at over 136,000. Enjoy!
GeoDB now supports base Portuguese (pt) and its Brazilian variant (pt_BR) as possible language translations, where data is available. If Brazilian Portuguese is requested but unavailable, the service will then attempt to get the base Portuguese version. If this too is missing, the service will fall …
GeoDB has now been featured in RapidAPI's Top 50 Most Popular APIs. Big thanks to our loyal users for making this happen! We are actively working on changes under the hood to make the service even more performant and scalable. Stay tuned!
Getting a city's GPS location, population, and elevation is all well and good, but what about when you're building:
Besides English, you can now display cities, regions, and countries in one of the following languages:
For details, please go to the API Reference sections which have been updated to describe the new languageCode param.
The translations are based on Wi…
All API operations returning city collection results now provide an optional sort parameter taking multiple sort directives. What this means is you can now do something like get all cities sorted by country code, then by name. Or get all cities near a location, sorted by largest cities first.
And…
Over the holidays, we went through a spiritual transformation and got in touch with our giving side. Drum roll...GeoDB now provides a FREE instance with the following generous usage limits:
Up to 1 requests/sec per unique IP.
For more details, go here to compare with the Pro levels.
You can now find the distance between any two cities.
curl --get --include 'https://wft-geo-db.p.mashape.com/v1/geo/cities/{fromCityId}?toCityId={toCityId}&distanceUnit={KM | MI)' \
-H 'X-Mashape-Key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
-H 'X-Mashape-Host: wft-geo-db.p.mashape.com'
In addition...
All cities now include time-zone data. The following functionality is now available:
Gets all available time-zones in the system. You should use these time-zone IDs as input to the other methods below, as GeoDB has its own way of encoding the '/' separator.
curl…
You can now easily find cities near a given city in a single call. Previously, you had to first get a city's details to obtain its latitude/longitude coordinates, then make a separate call to find all cities in that location. Now you can just do:
curl --get --include 'https://wft-geo-db.p.masha…
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