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I am trying to exclude items with a featureClass of S from my search. I tried using a query like this:

http://api.geonames.org/searchJSON?q=Africa&maxRows=3&style=FULL&featureClass=A&featureClass=H&featureClass=L&featureClass=P&featureClass=R&featureClass=T&featureClass=U&featureClass=V

However, with this particular search "Africa" brings up South Africa first and the continent itself does not show up in the results. If I add featureClass=S as a query parameter, then the same search returns the continent first. The continent record, though, has a featureClass of L, which I'm including.

Is what I'm attempting to do possible, or is there a different way of doing it?

Thanks,
Mike

Mike

The list of featureClasses results in an OR query and it seems that this affects the sort order.
It will be easier to search with name=Africa. Then the search will only be executed over the place name. With the q parameter all attributes are searched and the number of results is much bigger.

Best Regards

Marc