GeoNames Forum

Marc

I second the request for an update of the dump. Is this something that others can assist with to make it happen on a regular basis?

Thanks.

John

John

I do it as often as I manage to find the time. Unfortunately it is a real pain as the wikipedia geo-templates are extremely volatile and the wikipedia-contributors cannot agree on a common template. At the contrary, with every run of the parser a great number of articles disappear from the result because the template it has been using has been changed into something new and the parser needs to be adapted to the changed templates. There are literally hundreds or even thousands of competing templates how coordinates can be included in a wikipedia article. It is a real mess.

Marc

Hi there,

I would also be interested in the wiki table. I do use the commercial webservices, but I need to cut down on requests

Not because of credits, but I mash up quite a lot of APIs and it just takes too long to recieve all of them in an acceptable time for the user (even when I try to cache a lot of it).

It is definitely not due to the speed of the commercial geoname webservice (I am very happy with them), but I am looking for ways to replace the one or another webservice with something DB driven.

So, any chance to get a more or less fresh dump?

Thanks in advance
Nils

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@Marc: I can imagine the pain. I am working on an api aggregator, and this can be frustrating sometimes. Parsing that much more or less "unstructured" data must be really hard. From what files to you try to parse the contents. I am interested in a solution to this and want to dig a little deeper into the problem.

Hi Marc, I'm afraid it's another bump for an update

Quick Q: how come the wiki entries aren't included in the main country data files?

Jimbo.

Another request for the dump. I might even contribute to your favorite 'charity' or help you in some other way, since it will save me some work!

I need relation of geonameid and wikipedia page link on russian language only

derbov@gmail.com

kendt wrote:

I need relation of geonameid and wikipedia page link on russian language only
derbov@gmail.com

You may try this :

1. Download : http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/alternateNames.zip
2. Extract : alternateNames.txt
3. Filter lines that contains : "ru.wikipedia.org"
Linux = cat alternateNames.txt | grep ru.wikipedia.org

marc wrote:

The newest dump is available here:
http://www.geonames.org/export/wikipedia/wikipedia-200803.zip

Marc

Hi Marc, Can you please give us latest dump? Appreciate your help!

Thank you so much for keeping up with this! I would like the most recent dump available. I really appreciate your help.