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Hi all

I am currently working on Norwegian data.

Thus, for the coordinates 60.35856981079212 9.377244312263493, we obtain the following adminCodes with
https://secure.geonames.net/findNearbyJSON?lat=60.35856981079212&lng=9.377244312263493&style=FULL&radius=500&
maxRows=1&username=myUser

AdminCode1=30 and AdminCode2=3039.

If we search for these coordinates directly in geonames, we obtain the following adminCodes: AdminCode1=04 and AdmonCode2=3320 giving the municipality of Flå

Now, if i search "Flå" into the NO.txt donwload from free gazeteer, we get 04/3320/Flå which is consistent with searching by coordinates via the geonames web interface

Do you have an explanation why findNearbyJSON give a different result ?

Pascal
municipality