Introduction
A very cool set of tools, there is everything from postcodes, elevations, weather in ICAO standard, earthquakes, time zones & even city statistics, population.
Data calls
- GeoNames - Search (Data)
- GeoNames - Lookup Place & Postcode
- GeoNames - Find Nearby Populated Place
- GeoNames - Weather Station With Most Recent Weather Observation
- GeoNames - Recent Earthquakes
- GeoNames - Ocean / Reverse Geocoding
- GeoNames - Elevation - SRTM3
- GeoNames - Timezone
- GeoNames - Country Info (Bounding Box, Capital, Area In Square Km, Population)
- GeoNames - Country Subdivision
Setting up
- To use plugin need to create a GeoNames account. Register link: http://www.geonames.org
2. After email confirmation, need to login and enable GeoNames services usage for current account:
3. Install GeoNames plugin to our app.
4. Configure plugin credentials.
Just open installed plugin in Plugins tab, and put your username from GeoNames to “username” input.
Responses for API Calls:
Search (data) - returns a list of objects with following content:
Lookup Place & Postcode - returns a list of objects with following content:
Find nearby populated place - returns a list of objects:
Weather Station with most recent weather observation - returns an object with following content:
Recent Earthquakes - returns a list of objects:
Ocean / reverse geocoding - returns an object:
Elevation - SRTM3 - returns an object:
Changelogs
Update 18.08.2022 - Version: 1.7.0
- minor fixes
Tip: More details about GeoNames Library you can find at: http://www.geonames.org/export/web-services.html