GeoNames Location Source

This node provides location information for a “Location Extractor” or “Reverse Location Lookup” node.

The node accesses the GeoNames database – each query is sent to the database to retrieve results. “GeoNames is aggregating over hundred different data sources.” The node uses the GeoNames REST web service for which the following terms and conditions apply (quoting from here):

• free: GeoNames data is free, the data is available without costs.
• cc-by licence (creative commons attributions license). You should give credit to GeoNames when using data or web services with a link or another reference to GeoNames.
• commercial usage is allowed
• “as is”: The data is provided “as is” without warranty or any representation of accuracy, timeliness or completeness.
• 20,000 credits daily limit per application (identified by the parameter “username”), the hourly limit is 1,000 credits. A credit is a web service request hit for most services. An exception is thrown when the limit is exceeded.
• Service Level Agreement is available for our premium web services.

You can create a new account here. Afterwards follow this link and enable the usage of the “Free Web Services”.

We suggest to enable the option to retrieve location hierarchies to improve the Location Extractor’s result accuracy. This however causes an additional API request for every found location.

If you want to keep your data private, you’re running out of GeoNames’ request limit, you want to speed up operations significantly, or you want to use a more extensive database than provided by GeoNames, have a look at the “Local Location Source” node.