GeoNames Forum

Hello all! I'm new to Geonames. I'm trying to find out how to retrieve the latitude and longitude for an address. I looked through the documentation but it's confusing for a beginner. I will really appreciate any kind of guidance! I'm currently using ajax for an autocomplete of cities and would also like to retrieve the lat, lng coordinates.

GeoNames doesn't do address geocoding.

The postal code search is the closest to it:
http://www.geonames.org/export/web-services.html#postalCodeSearch

Marc

Hello Marc! Thank you for the reply

I'm actually using the "q" parameter and it seems to pick up the coordinates if I put in city/town, state, country without zipcode.

I'm using an autocomplete, perhaps it picks up the zipcode as well but it's not displaying it.

you can use the OR operator. Per default the search service is using a AND operator and if your query string contains terms that do not match it won't find anything.

Best

Marc

Thanks! That's good to know! but where would I change the AND to OR?

http://www.geonames.org/export/geonames-search.html

the parameter is called 'operator'.

Marc

Ooh I looked at the list but missed it! Thank you again, you are a great help! I wish there were some tutorials for Geonames beginners. I'd love to make some once I learn it.