| Summary: | Some online services (Wikipedia, earthquakes, …) failing due to geonames.org API change | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | [Applications] marble | Reporter: | Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Dennis Nienhüser <nienhueser> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | major | CC: | nienhueser |
| Priority: | NOR | Flags: | nienhueser:
Backport+
|
| Version: | 1.6 (KDE 4.11) | ||
| Target Milestone: | 1.7 (KDE 4.12) | ||
| Platform: | Fedora RPMs | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | http://geonames.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/application-identification-for-free-geonames-web-services/ | ||
| Latest Commit: | http://commits.kde.org/marble/f23aaea5812dbdfce26d3134a56d2dabc8967fd6 | Version Fixed In: | 4.12.3 |
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
|
Description
Kevin Kofler
2014-02-11 02:55:24 UTC
According to: http://www.geonames.org/export/#terms they now enforce a query limit of 30000 "credits" for the free-of-charge service, which is why they require that username parameter. And going above that 30000 credits/day limit with the commercial plans costs AT LEAST € 5.04/week (that figure is the plan with the 100000 credits/day limit, and assuming an average of only 30000 credits/day so that its 5000000 credits last 166⅔ days). The cheapest plans actually have LOWER limits than the free one! So I don't think the commercial plans are a viable option for a Free Software project like Marble. See also: http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/2206.page Unathenticated access has been deprecated for almost 3 years now. It had continued working until recently, but now it got dropped. For over 3 years, that is. Some more links: http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/4347.page#14013 http://geonames.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/application-identification-for-free-geonames-web-services/ For the Wikipedia one, wikilocation.org might be an alternative if the query limit on geonames.org is a problem. For the other stuff, I don't know. Thanks for researching this, Kevin. I'll commit a fix shortly to have it work again with the free API. wikilocation.org looks interesting. We should look into it as a possible alternative for the wikipedia plugin. Git commit 12a1f748dedb75b20ae9e1b1bb6020be0a4f3a2f by Dennis Nienhüser. Committed on 26/02/2014 at 21:03. Pushed by nienhueser into branch 'master'. Fix geonames based online services after API change Affects Wikipedia, weather, postal codes and earthquakes services. M +1 -0 src/plugins/render/earthquake/EarthquakeModel.cpp M +2 -0 src/plugins/render/postalcode/PostalCodeModel.cpp M +4 -0 src/plugins/render/weather/GeoNamesWeatherService.cpp M +2 -0 src/plugins/render/wikipedia/WikipediaModel.cpp http://commits.kde.org/marble/12a1f748dedb75b20ae9e1b1bb6020be0a4f3a2f Git commit f23aaea5812dbdfce26d3134a56d2dabc8967fd6 by Dennis Nienhüser. Committed on 26/02/2014 at 21:03. Pushed by nienhueser into branch 'KDE/4.12'. Fix geonames based online services after API change Affects Wikipedia, weather, postal codes and earthquakes services. FIXED-IN: 4.12.2 (cherry picked from commit 12a1f748dedb75b20ae9e1b1bb6020be0a4f3a2f) M +1 -0 src/plugins/render/earthquake/EarthquakeModel.cpp M +2 -0 src/plugins/render/postalcode/PostalCodeModel.cpp M +4 -0 src/plugins/render/weather/GeoNamesWeatherService.cpp M +2 -0 src/plugins/render/wikipedia/WikipediaModel.cpp http://commits.kde.org/marble/f23aaea5812dbdfce26d3134a56d2dabc8967fd6 4.12.2 is already released, the fix will be only in 4.12.3. |