Convert Brightkite location ID to place name

Question

I'm using the following dataset

user    time                 lat           long                 locID
0   2010-10-17T01:48:53Z    39.747652   -104.99251 88c46bf20db295831bd2d1718ad7e6f5

I want to know what place each location Id is corresponding to?

Answer 1

This can be dine using The geonames API. GeoNames is mainly using REST webservices. provides static methods to access the GeoNames web services.