GeoNames Forum

Cwheat503 wrote:

The only thing different about the 4 is the gtopo30 and date modified...

No, the lat/lng are different.

Cwheat503 wrote:

One state can't have that many cities with the same exact names.

Why not? There is no universal law that would prevent this. People can call their cities however they like.

Marc

It has been a few days now with no response, so really I am bumping this.... but do you agree that thier seems to be a problem of major roads, parks, monuments, and what not being wrongly marked as populated place? or am I just crazy, or running a wrong query against the DB?

Thank You...

Your assumption that place names have to be unique is wrong. As for "Agua Caliente", you have just proven yourself that a place like this exists in the area of Tijuana.

Best

Marc

If you read my entire posts with examples you would see "Agua Caliente" in tijuana... is not a populated place PPL it is a highway... yet the DB has it marked as a populated place... that is my point... the db is marking non populated places as a populated place...

Your db has the wrong feature codes and feature classes for many places... Look at the one example I showed you (of many I found)

geoname_id: 4019564
feature_code: PPL
feature_class: P

Tell me how a highway "Boulevard Agua Caliente" can be marked with those codes and be "correct"???

Looking at this example would you agree that your feature codes/classes are wrong?

If not does that mean all highways are marked with P and PPL?