Sophware GEO
Sophware GEO is a suite of APIs designed to provide better access to a variety of endpoints for the GeoNames Dataset. Originally developed for internal use by our applications, we have decided to provide them to you as well.
The GeoNames project creates a hierarchy of records for planet Earth.
From earth you can drill down to get Continents, then Countries and then into the Country specific Administrative levels (e.g. States, Provinces, Counties, Cities, etc…)
The data set also contains a variety of POIs (point of interest) such as airports, parks, beaches, etc..
Feature Codes
Each record is assigned a feature code. These feature codes can be used to construct queries to meet all sorts of uses cases.
Admin Codes
The GeoNames records are organized beneath Administrative Codes. Admin codes all you to define the scope of your query. US.GA for example is the Admin Code for the State of Georgia in the United States. Using our admin endpoints you can find the admin code for an area of interest and then query that admin code for specific POIs.
Endpoint Documentation
Swagger and Openapi specifications.