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marc



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Canadian Geographical Names are available on www.geobase.ca, unfortunately the download is only available in 13'500 files. Theses files are generated on the fly and you will receive an email containing the link to these files (no more than 50 for one download order).

We have gone through this painful process and have downloaded all files in xml format.

All files in a single tar ball are here : http://download.geonames.org/export/geobase.tar.gz (30MB)
The tar-file has a size of 30M and contains around 13'500 files with a total of 300'000 distinct names (around 70'000 are duplicates). The datum used in these files is NAD27.



What is the difference to the normal geonames download for Canada ?
* The datum in the normal download is wgs84. (geobase.ca is nad27).
* duplicates are eliminated
* the feature codes have been converted. (http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/9.page)
* the geonames download is a cvs file (geobase.ca is xml)


If you are working with wgs84 the normal geonames download might be better for you.

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