GeoNames Forum

Hi there!
this is my first post.
First of all... Excellent website!

GeoNameId: 3181913
Current: Bolzano - Bozen
Replace with: Bolzano
Reason: Bozen is the german name for Bolzano, used only in Bolzano because they currently use 2 languages (italian/german) but the real name is simply Bolzano.

GeoNameId: 3176959
Current: Florence
Replace with: Firenze
Reason: Firenze is the real name, Florence is the english name

GeoNameId: 3164603
Current: Venice
Replace with: Venezia
Reason: Venezia is the real name, Venice is the english name

GeoNameId: 2523630
Current: Reggio di Calabria
Replace with: Reggio Calabria
Reason: Even if you can find "Reggio di Calabria" somewhere (googlemaps for example) and "Reggio di Calabria" was probably the original name in the past, nobody in Italy call this city in this way. The common way to call this city is "Reggio Calabria".
Look at http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggio_Calabria , the url is Reggio_Calabria, the title is Reggio Calabria, the box on the right side say Reggio Calabria.
In the traffic sign is also called "Reggio Calabria"
http://maps.google.it/maps?q=reggio+calabria&hl=it&ll=38.133915,15.658243&spn=0.008321,0.035298&gbv=2&t=h&z=16&vpsrc=6&layer=c&cbll=38.133923,15.658253&panoid=9yEQlCXBn87fAtKjV2NrCQ&cbp=11,187.55,,0,-3.01

Paolo

The main name normally is in English. For other languages the alternatenames lists them with the language code.

Best Regards

Marc