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brittany.gale



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Hello! I'm trying to figure out how the geonameid values are generated. Are they chronologically sequential? are they randomly generated? are they always between 4 and 8 digits? Thank you in advance!

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Brittany Gale
marc



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Hi Brittany

It is a database sequence starting with 1.

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Marc

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brittany.gale wrote:
Hello! I'm trying to figure out how the geonameid values are generated. Are they chronologically sequential? are they randomly generated? are they always between 4 and 8 digits? Thank you in advance! 

I'd like to reverse the question: Why would it be important?
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