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Getting Status 0 and Status Text OK while using GEOPlanet API in Firefox via Ajax

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:49:12 -0800

Hi,
I am facing this peculiar issue in Mozilla Firefox 3.5.7, when i fire a AJAX request to the GEOPlanet URL:
var url = 'http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/places.q('+elem+');start=0;count=10?appid=';
the "elem" here is an input element.

The Javascript for the XMLHTTP is as follows:

if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
{// code for IE7, Firefox, Mozilla, etc.
xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
}
else if (window.ActiveXObject)
{// code for IE5, IE6
xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
}
if (xmlhttp!=null)
{
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=onResponse;
xmlhttp.open("GET",url,true);
xmlhttp.send(null);
}
else
{
alert("Your browser does not support XMLHTTP.");
}

The call back has following implementation:
function onResponse()
{
if(xmlhttp.readyState!=4) return;
alert("Status:"+xmlhttp.status);
alert("StatusText:"+xmlhttp.statusText);
if(xmlhttp.status!=200)
{
alert("Problem retrieving XML data");
return;
}
----
---
}

I get alerts as
Status:0
Status Text:Ok
and
Problem retrieving XML data

The same code though works on IE 7
Kindly help me with this issue.
TIA
Regards,
Sidharth

What is the Mapping between the WOEID of a location and the Weather.com Weather Location Id?

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:02:29 -0800

Hi Team,
I wanted to know whether there is a mapping between the Yahoo GeoPlanet WOEID and the Weather Location Id.
The Yahoo Rss for weather uses the WOEID and responds with the Weather Forecast for the Day.
But with the Weather Location Id, it responds with the Forecast for 5 Days. I wanted use the 5 day full forecast feed.
Kindly help me with this Information.
TIA

Regards,
Sidharth

What is the Mapping between the WOEID of a location and the Weather.com Weather Location Id?

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:02:29 -0800

Hi, I forwarded this to our weather team.

What is the Mapping between the WOEID of a location and the Weather.com Weather Location Id?

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:02:29 -0800

Hi Sidharth

The YDN weather API is intended for 2 day forecast apart from current day observation data.
The example in the YDN weather documentation also shows 2 day forecast for API call.

The following is the details YDN weather documentation that uses WOEIDs: http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/
The old weather documentation: http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/archive.html

Can you post the link you are using to get the 5-day forecast?

Finding all towns/cities of a country

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:31:35 -0800

Hi,

currently I'm exploring the yahoo! GeoPlanet API and I'm failing at one simple task. I only want to get a list of all cities/towns within a given country. Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,

Jan

Finding all towns/cities of a country

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:31:35 -0800

There are a LOT of Towns in a country. What you could do is recursively filter down by using children: country, state, county and town:

Start with USA = WOEID = 23424977
http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/place/234249...ppid=YOUR_APPID

Pick your state:
http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/place/STATE_...ppid=YOUR_APPID

Pick County, and get the child towns:
http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/place/COUNTY...ppid=YOUR_APPID

Trouble finding place by alias

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:53:49 -0800

I'm trying to find the Borough of Halton in England via the API. LocalAdmin "Halton Borough" has ID 12696171 and the alias "Halton" in GeoPlanet 7.4.0. But if I search for "Halton, GBR" or "Halton, England" I only get towns named "Halton". Searching for "Halton Borough" does get me place 12696171. Searching for "Halton" with types restricted to "8,9,10" doesn't help.

Here's my query: http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/places.q(...unt=0?appid=XXX

Any ideas?

Trouble finding place by alias

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:53:49 -0800

Thanks, we have logged a ticket to investigate this issue.

Place add request: Matarca, Morocco

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:16:25 -0800

Place name (Matarka, Morocco)
Location (Latitude: N 33° 15' 0'' Longitude: W 2° 42' 36'')

http://www.geonames.org/search.html?q=matarka&country=

error: España (spain) as Town type