"The edges of a city's defined borders don't really mean all that much when they bleed into yet more urbanity." – Nate Berg

Metropolitan areas for the Where On Earth (WOE) hierarchy derived from Natural Earth (NE) urban areas. Read: Polygons

New WOE IDs have been minted using one of three artisanal integer providers: Mission Integers, Brooklyn Integers or London Integers.

This is very much a work in progress.

I still need to write it.

In the long-run Github may not be the best venue for managing all of these records. But it's not an entirely crazy idea either so we're going to try it for a while because it's easy and safe.

• Reverse geocode all the edges of the geometries for each record to at least the country level, if not state. As of this writing there is a hierarchy of places (state, country) for each record based on their geometry's centroid.

• Figure out the list of children for each record.

• Try to work out place names for each (some?) record.

• whereonearth-planet

• whereonearth-country

• whereonearth-timezone

• whereonearth-state

• whereonearth-airport

• whereonearth-building

• Yahoo! GeoPlanet Data

• Natural Earth 1:10m Urban Areas

• Natural Earth 1:10m Populated Places

• Show Me the GeoJSON