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Marnace, France is at lat N44.837 lng E1.027

currently http://ws.geonames.org/findNearbyPlaceNameJSON?lat=44.837&lng=1.027 returns

{"geonames":[{
"countryName":"France",
"adminCode1":"97",
"fclName":"city, village,...",
"countryCode":"FR",
"lng":1.0333333,
"fcodeName":"populated place",
"distance":"0.6447",
"fcl":"P",
"name":"Berbiguières",
"fcode":"PPL",
"geonameId":3033430,
"lat":44.8333333,
"population":194,
"adminName1":"Aquitaine"
}]}

http://ws.geonames.org/findNearbyPlaceName?lat=44.837&lng=1.027 returns the correct results

-<geonames>
-<geoname>
<name>Marnac</name>
<lat>44.8376735947423</lat>
<lng>1.02679252624512</lng>
<geonameId>2995621</geonameId>
<countryCode>FR</countryCode>
<countryName>France</countryName>
<fcl>P</fcl>
<fcode>PPL</fcode>
<distance>0.0767</distance>
</geoname>
</geonames>

In addition, the location returned by findNearbyPlaceNameJSON? is not the current position for Berbiguières show by www.geonames.org. I corrected the postion approximately 24 hours ago. The postion returned by www.geonames.org for Berbiguières is N44.83384 / E1.04153.

Hi

Synchronization of updates on all the servers in the GeoNames cluster is supposed to be instantaneously. Sometimes however it takes some time. Right now I think all servers return the same result for your reverse geocoding query.

Marc

same problem for lat=44.93660 lng=1.01532 which is Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil, France.

http://ws.geonames.org/findNearbyPlaceName?lat=44.93660&lng=1.01532

returns

−<geonames>
−<geoname>
<name>Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil</name>
<lat>44.9333333</lat>
<lng>1.0166667</lng>
<geonameId>3001095</geonameId>
<countryCode>FR</countryCode>
<countryName>France</countryName>
<fcl>P</fcl>
<fcode>PPL</fcode>
<distance>0.3784</distance>
</geoname>
</geonames>

using same lat/lng but JSON form

http://ws.geonames.org/findNearbyPlaceNameJSON?lat=44.93660&lng=1.01532

returns different PPL

{"geonames":[{"countryName":"France","adminCode1":"97","fclName":"city, village,...","countryCode":"FR","lng":1.0166667,"fcodeName":"populated place","distance":"0.3784","fcl":"P","name":"La Mouthe","fcode":"PPL","geonameId":3007978,"lat":44.9333333,"population":0,"adminName1":"Aquitaine"}]}

I have subsequently corrected the location for La Mouthe but it has not had any effect yet. Regardless, I would think that the JSON form should return the same PPL for the same lat/lng if no changes have been made to the data recently.

Thanks.