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ID #6943603, Perth, ME (really NB), 46.68595N, 67.61604W
ID #6943606, Lower Perth, ME (really NB), 46.70285, -67.71938
ID #6943730, Bon Accord, ME (really NB), 46.6492, -67.5925

I found the above while trying to figure out why timezone shapefiles were telling me that the timezone for these places is America/Moncton, a Canadian timezone.

I was doubting the shapefiles, but now I can see it's the place data that doesn't make sense. I looked up the lat/long coordinates in Google maps, and not only are the coordinates in Canada, the places names are there too. This isn't just a matter of bad coordinates for actual US places names.

This makes me wonder just how much unreliable data is in allCountries.zip, since I'm currently only sampling a small portion of the data, and not all errors are going to stand out as much as these.

If you find errors please feel free to fix them: http://www.geonames.org/about.html

Marc

Should my forum username/password work for this, or do I need to set up a new account for editing data?

Never mind... I just went ahead and created a matching account with the same name I'm using here in the forums.