GeoNames Forum

Hello,

Would it be possible to include the ocean geoname id along with the name? I think it would be more convinient than having just the name.

Thank you for your answer

Sure, if you help assign the geonameid to the ocean names.

This is what we have so far, the second column is the geonameid, please add the missing ones:

Code:

 Adriatic Sea	3183462
 Aegean Sea	265695
 Alboran Sea	
 Anadyrskiy Gulf	4031773
 Andaman Or Burma Sea	
 Arabian Sea	1158455
 Arafura Sea	1818208
 Aral Sea	1526250
 Arctic Ocean	2960860
 Aru Sea	
 Baffin Bay	
 Balear Sea	2363257
 Bali Sea	1818207
 Baltic Sea	2633321
 Banda Sea	
 Barents Sea	630674
 Bass Strait	
 Bay Of Bengal	1281789
 Bay Of Biscay	2960858
 Bay Of Fundy	
 Beaufort Sea	
 Bering Sea	
 Bismarck Sea	2110018
 Black Sea	630673
 Bo Sea	
 Bristol Channel	
 Canarias Sea	
 Caribbean Sea	
 Caspian Sea	630671
 Celtic Sea	2960856
 Chukchi Sea	
 Coastal Waters Of Great Barrier Reefs	
 Coastal Waters Of Southeast Alaska And British Columbia	
 Coral Sea	2194166
 Davis Strait	3424931
 East China Sea	1676969
 East Siberian Sea	2127381
 English Channel	
 Flores Sea	1818200
 Georgian Bay	5960552
 Great Australian Bight	
 Green Bay	
 Greenland Sea	2960853
 Guantanamo Bay	
 Gulf Of Aden	80303
 Gulf Of Alaska	4031789
 Gulf Of Aqaba	
 Gulf Of Berau	
 Gulf Of Bone	
 Gulf Of Bothnia	630672
 Gulf Of California	4016118
 Gulf Of Carpentaria	2074837
 Gulf Of Finland	453749
 Gulf Of Guinea	2363255
 Gulf Of Mannar	1281787
 Gulf Of Mexico	3523271
 Gulf Of Oman	
 Gulf Of Panama	
 Gulf Of Riga	453746
 Gulf Of St Lawrence	
 Gulf Of Suez	235614
 Gulf Of Tartary	2120711
 Gulf Of Thailand	1818185
 Gulf Of Tomini	1818199
 Gulf Of Tonkin	1818184
 Halmahera Sea	1818198
 Hudson Bay	
 Hudson Strait	
 Iceland Sea	
 Indian Ocean	1545739
 Inner Seas Off The West Coast Of Scotland	
 Ionian Sea	2463713
 Irish Sea And St. George'S Channel	
 Japan Sea	2038684
 Jawa Sea	1818196
 Joseph Bonaparte Gulf	2068951
 Kara Sea	
 Labrador Sea	
 Lake Erie	
 Lake Huron	
 Lake Michigan	
 Lake Ontario	
 Lake Superior	
 Lakshadweep Sea	1237875
 Laptev Sea	2038683
 Liaodong Gulf	2036121
 Ligure Sea	3174724
 Lincoln Sea	
 Makasar Strait	
 Malacca Strait	
 Maluku Sea	1636628
 Mediterranean Sea, Eastern Basin	
 Mediterranean Sea, Western Basin	
 Mindanao Sea	
 Mozambique Channel	
 Natuna Sea	
 North Atlantic Ocean	3411923
 North Greenland Sea	
 North Pacific Ocean	4030875
 North Sea	2960860
 Northwestern Passages	3831547
 Norwegian Sea	2960847
 Palk Strait And Palk Bay	
 Persian Gulf	235616
 Philippine Sea	
 Red Sea	
 Rio De La Plata	
 Sawu Sea	1818189
 Sea Of Azov	713066
 Sea Of Marmara	630669
 Sea Of Okhotsk	2127380
 Seram Sea	1818202
 Seto Naikai	
 Singapore Strait	
 Skagerrak	2960845
 Solomon Sea	2086419
 South Atlantic Ocean	3358844
 South China Sea	
 South Pacific Ocean	5881215
 Strait Of Gilbraltar	
 Strait Of Sicilia	2523117
 Sulawesi Sea	1818203
 Sulu Sea	
 Sumba Strait	1626194
 Taiwan Strait	1668281
 Tasman Sea	2147286
 The Great Belt	
 The Little Belt	
 The Sound	
 Timor Sea	2078065
 Tirreno Sea	2522836
 Torres Strait	2132427
 Unk	
 White Sea	577742
 Yellow Sea	1818183

I would be glad to help.

I started looking for the missing geonameid's and I noticed that often more than one features exist for the same ocean name. For example, there are two features for the Gulf Of Panama, both with the same feature code and at the same latitude/longitude only one has the name "Gulf of Panama" and the other "Golfo de Panamá". I suppose the dublicate entry should not be there?

I'll post a list with the missing id's as soon as possible.

Regards

You are right, I have deleted one of the two Gulf of Panamas.

Marc

I'm not entirely sure what the Canarias Sea is supposed to be, but it probably shouldn't be the result of this query:

http://ws.geonames.org/extendedFindNearby?lat=25.5565710943&lng=-32.9850060664

That's pretty far away from the Canary Islands, which is really the only possible association.

"Canarias Sea" is the sea off the Canary Islands.

Marc

Hi --

I have been using the Ocean service and have come across a number of (what appear to be) typos in the results, and in the list above. As far as I can determine...

"Strait Of Gilbraltar" should be Gibraltar
"Gulf Of Bone" should be Boni
"Jawa Sea" should be Java
"Coastal Waters Of Great Barrier Reefs" should be Reef (not Reefs)
"Makasar Strait" should be Makassar
"Japan Sea" should (IMO) be "Sea of Japan"
"Bo Sea" should be "Bohai Sea"

-- Eric

thanks Eric.

Marc

Just wondering if there is an update on this? Are you still missing some of the ids? It would be *really* helpful to have the geoname id along with the ocean/sea name.

If you've got the IDs I guess it could even return the same data that a geoname does (fcodes, alternative names etc).

Thanks