GeoNames Forum

Is it possible to obtain the populated place to which a latitude & longitude belong ?
I have tried some of the reverse geocoding services available but it seems like they return the closest toponyms, but I would like to obtain the exact toponym where the coordinates belong.

all geonames reverse geocoding service for populated places return the closest result, either a single record or a sorted list. city boundary information for other kind of services is not available.

Marc

Do you about a way to map a point to a Geonames population using city boundaries? I can use another external webservice if I can end up mapping the population to a Geonames ID.

if the boundaries were available then it would be possible to get all geoname records lying within the boundaries. For the final result the best matching record would have to be determined.

Marc

Well, the ideal setup, IMO, would be to have a boundary mapped to a specific geonames id. For example the area of a city mapped to the city id.
This would allow answering the question "To which city does this position belongs to?"
Do you know if this would possible currently using Geonames and maybe also another data source (like OpenStreetMap or something similar) ?