Using Geo APIs to pick a random town from anywhere in the world

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Published on 2010-03-25T08:18:07Z Indexed on 2010/03/25 8:23 UTC
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Hi all,

I'm trying to use Yahoo's excellent GeoPlanet API: http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/geoplanet/guide/api-reference.html

I would like to pick a random town from anywhere in the world but can't see an easy way to do it. I have tried querying by country and asking for children of type 'town', but can't seem to do that directly.

Can anyone think of a way to pluck out a random town WOEID without having to query the country, then the admin regions, then the admin 2, then the admin 3 etc.

I have also experimented using YQL, but don't have enough of an understanding about the available APIs.

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