GeoNames Forum

Hi,

we will be doing some i18n project based on geonames.org dataset and i have some requests that hopefully could be addressed in the futur...

- update countries (Serbia and Montenegro)
- phone number format for countries
- phone number regex for countries
- language types for country mappings:

for example:

official
national
regional
de facto
de jure
legislative
business

- admin area level used for post abbriviations:

germany, switzerland, usa = level 1
italy and uk = level 2

- an admin level names and country mappings

for example:

AREA = (
('a', _('Another')),
('i', _('Island')),
('ar', _('Arrondissement')),
('at', _('Atoll')),
('ai', _('Autonomous island')),
('ca', _('Canton')),
('cm', _('Commune')),
('co', _('County')),
('dp', _('Department')),
('de', _('Dependency')),
('dt', _('District')),
('dv', _('Division')),
('em', _('Emirate')),
('gv', _('Governorate')),
('ic', _('Island council')),
('ig', _('Island group')),
('ir', _('Island region')),
('kd', _('Kingdom')),
('mu', _('Municipality')),
('pa', _('Parish')),
('pf', _('Prefecture')),
('pr', _('Province')),
('rg', _('Region')),
('rp', _('Republic')),
('sh', _('Sheading')),
('st', _('State')),
('sd', _('Subdivision')),
('sj', _('Subject')),
('ty', _('Territory')),
)

- timezones and country mappings
- currency and country mappings... i think some countries have an official and some unofficial currencies
- symbol and number of decimal places used in a currency
- calendar used in a country

we have most of the data here and could easily enter it if you woul provide a interface

cheers

Pat