GeoNames Forum

Somebody added wrong russian translations for Kyiv, Ukraine: "Киеву" and "Киевом". Please delete them.

https://www.geonames.org/703448/kyiv.html

I don't speak Russian. They look like cases for Russian declension.
I find 'Почему город Киев называется Киевом?' searching for Киевом.
(="Why is the city of Kyiv called Kyiv?")

In a way it could be useful to have information about cases of geographical names included somewhere. Using flags or even rules?

Best Regards

Marc

Hi Marc.

Yes, they are declension cases.
The problem is that I use alternateNamesV2.zip from premium subscription data in my scripts and there is no way to figure out which one has common case.

for the time being I have marked the nominativ case as 'preferred'. This should solve your immediate issue.
However, we need to either come up with a better solution and flag/mark cases and declension properly or remove them altogether.

any ideas?