GeoNames Forum

Hello,

I've seen that there are more than 1000 places with the word 'junction' in their names (like 'Taylor Junction'), most of them in the US, and that are currently classified as populated places. I think their classification can be safely changed to the feature class 'road, railroad' and feature code 'road junction'.

What do you think?
Thanks,

xavi

Hi Xavi

You are right is looks amiss. Using the search engines does not really help as most (or even all) pages returned are websites of search engine spammers using the same USGS dataset we are using. The problem with the spammers is that if a small populated place with this name really exists it will be difficult to find it in the search engines as the spammers usually are more efficient in writing search engine friendly webpages.

Here the numbers with the featurecode of the original USGS dataset :
Code:

count |  feature
 -------+-----------
   1111 | ppl
    315 | locale
      2 | gap
      2 | summit
      2 | building
      2 | crossing
      1 | reservoir

I think the features 'locale' can safely be set to "road". And if nobody finds a ppl which is really a ppl, we can also change those.

Marc