Get location description using geonameId

sujithm — GMT

Hi Is there a way to get a short description about a location by providing geonameId? I found that there are APIs like "findNearbyWikipedia", "wikipediaSearch" and "wikipediaBoundingBox" which can be used to get location descriptions, but all of these accept latitude and longitudes. I am looking for a way to get accurate information pertaining to a specific location (represented by its geonameId). Can you please let me know whether this is possible? Thanks in advance.

Re:Get location description using geonameId

RobIII — GMT

I don't know if you're familiar with C# and the NGeoNames package but if you are: If you need to do a single lookup: Code:

using NGeoNames;
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        var datadir = @"d:\test\geo";

        // Download file (optional; you can point a GeoFileReader to existing files ofcourse)
        GeoFileDownloader.CreateGeoFileDownloader().DownloadFile("NL.zip", datadir);

        // Lookup entry
        var entry = GeoFileReader.ReadExtendedGeoNames(Path.Combine(datadir, "NL.txt"))
            .Where(g => g.Id == 6544279)
            .FirstOrDefault();


        Console.WriteLine(entry.Name);
    }
}

If you want to do lots of lookups in O(1): Code:

using NGeoNames;
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        var datadir = @"d:\test\geo";

        // Download file (optional; you can point a GeoFileReader to existing files ofcourse)
        GeoFileDownloader.CreateGeoFileDownloader().DownloadFile("NL.zip", datadir);

        // Build dictionary
        var entries = GeoFileReader.ReadExtendedGeoNames(Path.Combine(datadir, "NL.txt"))
            .ToDictionary(g => g.Id);


        Console.WriteLine(entries[6544279].Name);
        Console.WriteLine(entries[2759794].Name);
        Console.WriteLine(entries[2745912].Name);
    }
}

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