GeoNames Forum

Hi all

Fist congratulations for a great work!

I would like to use your database and so I am doing some tests on it. I think I found some errors and some of them I am posting on the forum. Please validate it:

geonameid | name | fcode | possible fix

6948426 | Stadtzentrum San Francisco | PPL | San Francisco city center
6947433 | Stadtzentrum Madrid | PPL | Madrid city center
6946864 | Stadtzentrum | PPLL | duplicate - same lat lon as 6947433
6949575 | Stadtzentrum | PPLX | City Center
4899966 | Lincoln Square (historical) | PPL | probably PPLX
7146040 | Atlanta Station Number 4 Fire Station | PPL | maybe some other fcode
4899966 | Lincoln Square (historical) | PPL | probably PPLX

I write an algorithm that search for the closest PPL also regarding population and without PPLX, PPLQ and PPLW for hotels and restaurants. The result shows that some of the values are probably fakes and another one are wrong. The most hotels in Hong Kong have country code set to China and not to Hong Kong. On another hand the result give an better focus for PPL validation. For Example Harlem (5120034) is PPL and Harlem (6690896) is PPLX. The lat lon difference is almost 0, so the 5120034 should be eliminated.

The results are written in MySQL table. If you would like to evaluate this data I can send it to you. (My database is from 27th april 2011).

I have a question about the * (historical) names. Why they don't have own fcode value?

Thanks!