City Culture/History Information

Question

Is there a provider who would provide information about a city's - it's history, Climate, Major religions, Language Distribution, important attractions ..

I checked stackoverflow earlier and from this I see an option of using Wikipedia - either scrape the screen or use DBPedia, WEX and others.

I would like to know if there is any provider available and who has exposed it as a Web Service API/XML Feed etc so develpers can query and extract information.

Answer 1

The first thing that came to my mind is wolframalpha.com, which has an API and it provides a lot of information about a city, but I'm not sure if they'll have all the fields you are interested in.

The best thing to do is probably to go to wolframalpha.com directly and type in a city name to see if the information is to your liking.

They have a developers page including links about the API here.