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[Post New]14/05/2009 13:34:22
    Subject: How does maxRows work?
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Richard Tobin



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If I limit the number of results returned for a search with maxRows, for example

http://ws.geonames.org/search?maxRows=20&name_equals=Inverness

how are the 20 results chosen? There are more than 20 places whose names are precisely "Inverness".
[Post New]15/05/2009 07:42:16
    Subject: Re:How does maxRows work?
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marc



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The maxRows does not affect the sorting. It just returned the first n rows as sorted by the full text search engine. The sort function depends on a lot of factors like: the name (term frequency/inverse document frequency), feature code, population, country, etc.

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Marc
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