As we have been iterating our site, and talking with users, the most requested feature recently has been a legend for the map, which makes sense because we show a lot of little meaningless icons (well meaningless to anyone but the founders).

We've heard this request from friends, family, random users, and also the last time we posted a release to Hacker News. So here it is :)

I'm going to make at least one improvement to this, which is to give you an explanation of each thing when you hover over it. The data will come from here: http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/featureCodes.txt