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Why does this only includes 10's of thousands of POIs? Why not include USGS and GeoNames points... there are millions of them.

Is this supposed to be strictly urban points?

not at all -- we're aggressively adding datasets, and those are among the ones that are on the top of our list :-)

I really like it.

Are you allowing API users to cache/store data?

Glad you find it useful! Yes, you can write data to the API via custom views. See Demo 1 at http://code.google.com/p/geo-api/wiki/Demos for an example of writing check-in comments to locations. Full user view API docs here: http://code.google.com/p/geo-api/wiki/ViewUser

Groovy, good luck with that!