Is there any way to tell whether a park from GeoNames is small or big?

Question

I have this query for parks in Alabama for example:

http://api.geonames.org/search?featureCode=PRK&username=genadinik&country=US&style=full&adminCode1=AL&maxRows=100

But it returns all sorts of parks like ballparks, playground, national forests. Is there a way to distinguish city-block parks from stadiums and from big parks for outdoors?

Also, there is a value that appears named score like this: 34.15653610229492

What is that value? Thanks!

Answer 1

The parks come from a points of interest layer - and points are just that, points. They don't have an area so there's no way to determine which one is bigger.

You would have to do another query from the points to a polygon layer, or have some similar means of obtaining the area of the park, to filter by size.

The "score" is "how appropriate these results are":

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