Hi,
I've encountered an oddity when looking up the town of Itzehoe, Germany via the Placefinder API (http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/placefinder/) : I get a valid result back, but with a blank WOEID:
http://where.yahooapis.com/geocode?locatio...gs=J&appid=[my app id]
{"ResultSet":{"version":"1.0","Error":0,"ErrorMessage":"No error","Locale":"us_US","Quality":40,"Found":1,"Results":[{"quality":40,"latitude":"53.923610","longitude":"9.515245","offsetlat":"53.923610","offsetlon":"9.515245","radius":5000,"name":"","line1":"","line2":"Itzehoe","line3":"","line4":"Germany","house":"","street":"","xstreet":"","unittype":"","unit":"","postal":"","neighborhood":"","city":"Itzehoe","county":"Steinburg","state":"Schleswig-Holstein","country":"Germany","countrycode":"DE","statecode":"SH","countycode":"","uzip":"25524","hash":"","woeid":"","woetype":""}]}}
However, making the same request through the GeoPlanet API (http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/geoplanet/) gives me a response with a WOEID of 663806:
http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/places.q(...ny')?appid=[my app id]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<places xmlns="http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/schema.rng" xmlns:yahoo="http://www.yahooapis.com/v1/base.rng" yahoo:start="0" yahoo:count="1" yahoo:total="1"><place yahoo:uri="http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/place/663806" xml:lang="en-US"><woeid>663806</woeid><placeTypeName code="7">Town</placeTypeName><name>Itzehoe</name><country type="Country" code="DE">Germany</country><admin1 type="Land" code="DE-SH">Schleswig-Holstein</admin1><admin2 type="District" code="">Landkreis Steinburg</admin2><admin3></admin3><locality1 type="Town">Itzehoe</locality1><locality2></locality2><postal></postal><centroid><latitude>53.923599</latitude><longitude>9.515240</longitude></centroid><boundingBox><southWest><latitude>53.911152</latitude><longitude>9.478710</longitude></southWest><northEast><latitude>53.958542</latitude><longitude>9.553950</longitude></northEast></boundingBox><areaRank>3</areaRank><popRank>10</popRank></place></places>
Any idea where this discrepancy comes from?
Cheers,
- Matt
