GeoNames Forum

hi,

is that possible to get the name of a city, given its geonameId, in several languages, and with one request?
I'm currently using

http://ws.geonames.org/getJSON?geonameId=xxxxxx

and get the alternateNames 'name' value for the 'lang' value I'm interested in.
The problem is that some results have several alternateNames with the same 'lang' value (e.g. new, york, big apple...).

How can I get the name returned by the request when setting a 'lang' value directly in the request?

thanks

The language code is only returned with the XML version of the request. For the XML request it was easy to add the info as attribute of the xml element without breaking the existing xml definition. For json it would need a refactoring of the returned object and it would break existing application.

Marc

ok, and how can it be done with the XML version of the request?

Where is the problem?
http://ws.geonames.org/get?geonameId=5128581&style=full

Marc

The problem is that if I want, for instance, the name in en, fr and es, using aternateNames with the corresponding 'lang' values, I get:

http://ws.geonames.org/get?geonameId=5128581&style=full

first alternateNames with lang value='en' -> Big Apple
first alternateNames with lang value='es' -> La Gran Manzana
first alternateNames with lang value='fr' -> New York

To get the correct names I need to run 3 requests and get the 'name':

http://ws.geonames.org/get?geonameId=5128581&lang=es
name-> Nueva York

http://ws.geonames.org/get?geonameId=5128581&lang=en
name-> New York

http://ws.geonames.org/get?geonameId=5128581&lang=fr
name-> New York

Can I do it in one request?

thanks for your replies

The hiearchy service returns only one name per language:
http://ws.geonames.org/hierarchy?geonameId=5128581&style=full

Great! thanks