GeoNames Forum

Hello,

We are trying to use the geonames webservices and we discovered that one of the towns in New Jersey seems to be duplicated. Is it possible to remove the duplicate? Please see the links below to both instances of West Caldwell.

https://www.geonames.org/5106238/west-caldwell.html
https://www.geonames.org/7259155/west-caldwell.html

Thanks,

Andy Plaza

deleted. Thanks.

Marc

We are still seeing West Caldwell, NJ duplicated when we access premium subscription webservice even though the geonames Web UI has only 1 entry.

The web interface is OK now but when I use the API I still get two entries. Could someone help me with this issue?

Thanks.

Here's the query I just ran: https://secure.geonames.net/searchJSON?name_startsWith=West Caldwell&q=New Jersey&country=US&operator=and&featureCode=PPL&maxRows=50&type=json&username=ricohmds&style=full and the results are:

{
"totalResultsCount": 2,
"geonames": [
{
"timezone": {
"gmtOffset": -5,
"timeZoneId": "America/New_York",
"dstOffset": -4
},
"bbox": {
"east": -74.2850639666534,
"south": 40.83952845124857,
"north": 40.857515748751425,
"west": -74.3088460333466,
"accuracyLevel": 1
},
"asciiName": "West Caldwell",
"astergdem": 59,
"countryId": "6252001",
"fcl": "P",
"srtm3": 59,
"score": 20.282623291015625,
"adminId2": "5097707",
"adminId3": "5106240",
"countryCode": "US",
"adminCodes1": {
"ISO3166_2": "NJ"
},
"adminId1": "5101760",
"lat": "40.84852",
"fcode": "PPL",
"continentCode": "NA",
"elevation": 54,
"adminCode2": "013",
"adminCode3": "78510",
"adminCode1": "NJ",
"lng": "-74.29695",
"geonameId": 7259155,
"toponymName": "West Caldwell",
"population": 0,
"adminName5": "",
"adminName4": "",
"adminName3": "West Caldwell Township",
"alternateNames": [
{
"name": "کالدول غربی، نیوجرسی",
"lang": "fa"
},
{
"name": "Вэст Калдвэл",
"lang": "kk"
},
{
"name": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Caldwell%2C_New_Jersey",
"lang": "link"
},
{
"name": "Вест Колдвел",
"lang": "sr"
},
{
"name": "Q1082435",
"lang": "wkdt"
}
],
"adminName2": "Essex",
"name": "West Caldwell",
"fclName": "city, village,...",
"countryName": "United States",
"fcodeName": "populated place",
"adminName1": "New Jersey"
},
{
"timezone": {
"gmtOffset": -5,
"timeZoneId": "America/New_York",
"dstOffset": -4
},
"bbox": {
"east": -74.2872531418214,
"south": 40.82991797481659,
"north": 40.85194782518341,
"west": -74.3163776581786,
"accuracyLevel": 2
},
"asciiName": "West Caldwell",
"astergdem": 59,
"countryId": "6252001",
"fcl": "P",
"srtm3": 64,
"score": 16.54784393310547,
"adminId2": "5097707",
"adminId3": "5106240",
"countryCode": "US",
"adminCodes1": {
"ISO3166_2": "NJ"
},
"adminId1": "5101760",
"lat": "40.84093",
"fcode": "PPL",
"continentCode": "NA",
"elevation": 58,
"adminCode2": "013",
"adminCode3": "78510",
"adminCode1": "NJ",
"lng": "-74.30182",
"geonameId": 5106238,
"toponymName": "West Caldwell",
"population": 7613,
"adminName5": "",
"adminName4": "",
"adminName3": "West Caldwell Township",
"alternateNames": [
{
"isPreferredName": true,
"name": "West Caldwell",
"lang": "en"
},
{
"name": "USWCL",
"lang": "unlc"
}
],
"adminName2": "Essex",
"name": "West Caldwell",
"fclName": "city, village,...",
"countryName": "United States",
"fcodeName": "populated place",
"adminName1": "New Jersey"
}
]
}

it takes a while till a change is visible in the api. This is to have time to fix errors and inconsistencies before deploying them.

Marc