Pleiades Places API
Chunks of read-only data we use in various applications are available in JSON via HTTP. We're supporting Cross-Origin Resource Sharing but not JSONP.
Status
A count of places, locations, and names.
http://api.pleiades.stoa.org/status
Access Example
$ curl -v http://api.pleiades.stoa.org/status
> GET /api/status HTTP/1.1
> Host: pleiades.stoa.org
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:55:02 GMT
< Content-Type: application/json
< Cache-Control: max-age=900
< Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
<
{"num_places": 34090, "num_locations": 35220, "num_names": 26644}
Data Items
Place
Data about a single ancient place represented as a GeoJSON feature collection.
URI template: http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/{pid}/json
Access Example
$ curl -v http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/423025/json | python -m json.tool
> GET /places/423025/json HTTP/1.1
> Host: pleiades.stoa.org
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:40:17 GMT
< Content-Type: application/json
< Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
<
{
"bbox": [
12.486136999999999,
41.8917,
12.4862,
41.891775000000003
],
"connectsWith": [
"423080"
],
"description": "The capital of the Roman Republic and Empire",
"features": [
{
"geometry": {
"bbox": [
12.4862,
41.8917,
12.4862,
41.8917
],
"coordinates": [
12.4862,
41.8917
],
"type": "Point"
},
"id": "temple-of-vesta",
"properties": {
"description": "",
"link": "http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/423025/temple-of-vesta",
"title": "Temple of Vesta"
},
"type": "Feature"
},
{
"geometry": {
"bbox": [
12.486136999999999,
41.891775000000003,
12.486136999999999,
41.891775000000003
],
"coordinates": [
12.486136999999999,
41.891775000000003
],
"type": "Point"
},
"id": "darmc-location-30635",
"properties": {
"description": "",
"link": "http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/423025/darmc-location-30635",
"title": "DARMC location 30635"
},
"type": "Feature"
}
],
"id": "423025",
"names": [
"Roma",
"Rome"
],
"recent_changes": [
{
"modified": "2012-02-15T04:56:45Z",
"principal": "admin"
}
],
"reprPoint": [
12.486136999999999,
41.891775000000003
],
"title": "Roma",
"type": "FeatureCollection"
}