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My city seems on water. How do I contribute to get it on land?  XML
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chakian



Joined: 09/07/2019 20:15:03
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I don't know if I am on the right forum, please tell me if this should be posted somewhere else.

I am playing a geo-location based game and the game uses geonames supplied data to determine whether the user selected location is on land or on water.

For some locations, where it's actually land and I have been walking on it, it seems like the geonames service reports the location as water. Is there a way to report these locations as "land"?

Thanks in advance.
chakian



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I have found the polygon that defines the land borders in my city. But I couldn't figure a way out to update the polygon, there's only basic information that can be edited.

This is how Istanbul city's borders are seen:


And this is the update panel:
marc



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Thanks for reporting. The boundaries are not editable. We have searched for better data. The update is in progress. It will take some days till it is visible on the api.
Attached a screenshot of how it will look with the update.

Marc
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chakian



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It seems correct. Thank you very much for the update and for the quick response.
 
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