GeoNames Forum

This query, taken straight from the docs, returns XML with a number of countrySubdivision records within a <geonames> tag:

http://ws.geonames.org/countrySubdivision?lat=47.03&lng=10.2&maxRows=10&radius=60

but the corresponding JSON request doesn't:

http://ws.geonames.org/countrySubdivisionJSON?lat=47.03&lng=10.2&maxRows=10&radius=60

- it seems to only return one record, whatever you do with radius and maxRows...

This is true. The list of divisions was a feature that was added later to the service and it was easy to add an additional xml element, but the json response did not allow for an additional document. As nobody was asking it we did not add the feature to the json response.

Marc

The JSON and XML output from findNearbyPostalCodes is also inconsistent.

For example: XML uses 'name', JSON uses 'placeName', and the JSON doesn't include the distance.

mark