Continent in place query results

We provide only the most basic information in the geographic context -- returning 'continent', 'timezone', etc. in all calls would be unhelpful to the majority of users. It is however accessible in a second call via the the 'belongtos' resource:

http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/place/742676/belongtos?appid=[yourappidhere]

- Tyler

But that doesn't always return the continent, see 'San Francisco' http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/place/2487956/belongtos?appid=

My bad, I hadn't noticed that the default number of places returned were 10 and the continent for this case was in the 14th place

You can retrieve just the continent information for a place by including a .type filter in your request. This restricts the results to the provided place type(s). Here is an example:

returns continent WOEID and name

If you want more information about the continent, such as centroid and bounding box, you can include the query parameter "select=long". Here is an example:

returns continent WOEID, name, centroid, and bounding box

Eddie Babcock
Yahoo! Geo Technologies