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mjtamlyn



Joined: 19/06/2015 17:13:29
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I'm seeing an odd discrepancy between the statistics pages and the actual downloads. I'd expect them to be a few records out, but in particular around 3000 populated places seem to be missing in GB.

I've downloaded GB.zip, extracted the data with the feature class "P". There are 12435 records listed, however the statistics page ( http://www.geonames.org/statistics/united-kingdom.html) gives a total of 17040, including 12000 which are not the seat of an administrative division or similar. I have 10873 PPL records, rather than 15104 according to the statistics.

To give a concrete example, the populated place Didcot (http://www.geonames.org/2651269/didcot.html) does not appear in the list at all. However the administrative area of Didcot (http://www.geonames.org/7300948/didcot.html) does appear, making me wonder if there is some deduplication here? This doesn't make any sense though, because the village down the road (North Moreton) has both its administrative area (7297612) and its populated place (2641300) included.

I get the same behaviour from allCountries.zip as well.

Any idea what is going on here?

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Context: Building a world wide autocomplete search on populated places only, using their hierarchical structure to provide context to the names.
marc



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you mean you do not have 2651269 in your file? Then it must be a loading error on your side, you probably haven't loaded the entire file but only part of it.

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tomsimek



Joined: 20/07/2015 12:56:07
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Probably the GB.zip file wasn't loaded in 100%. Try to do it yet again or load it separately.
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