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Unfortunately the reverse geocoding services I provide is down as there are too many incoming request. This resulted in Yahoo services blocking the requests coming from my servers. When I wrote this service I never thought that it would be so popular as I wrote it has some sort of hack. But a few month done the line and there are about 500 000 requests per month.

If you are still interested in reverse geocoding your long/lats I published the source code used for the reverse geocoding service in github http://github.com/geomojo/ReverseGeocoder.

The recommanded solution for reverse geocoding to WOEID is by using the Flickr API flickr.places.findByLatLon.html

This can also be done using the YQL language:

http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select%20*%20from%20flickr.places%20where%20lon%3D-97.470929%20and%20lat%3D37.510042&diagnostics=true

Where the lon and lat parameters contains the lat/long you want to reverse geocode into a WOEID.

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