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lmathy



Joined: 01/12/2021 12:19:46
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Really appreciate the GeoNames resource!

We've been using countryInfo.txt via

https://download.geonames.org/export/dump/countryInfo.txt

We last fetched it about a year ago. Today I went to check if we should update our data that we found in countryInfo.txt last year.

For example, we can see that https://www.geonames.org/statistics/ reports the population of the United Kingdom as 66,488,991 and that matches the data we fetched last year but the current countryInfo.txt says the population is 62,348,447.

Is it possible that countryInfo.txt may has been replaced with an older file? It seems like the file we fetched a year ago is more up to date, as there are similar examples for other countries, we just spotted the difference for the United Kingdom first.

If there is an update to countryInfo.txt to match the data elsewhere on GeoNames, or if I can do anything to help update countryInfo.txt please let me know!
 
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