GeoNames Forum

As of today user tags are exported with the daily data base dump. They are in the file 'userTags.zip' with two tab separated columns : geonameId and Tag.

The tags are used to flag a place name. In contrast to the feature codes and feature classes which are one-dimensional (a place name can only have one feature code) several tags can be used for each place name.

It is an additional categorization mechanism where the simple classification with feature codes is not sufficient.

I have tagged a place with the tag 'skiresort'. You can search for tags with the search :
http://www.geonames.org/search.html?q=skiresort
If you only want to search for a tag and not for other occurences of the term (in case you tag something with 'spain' for example), then you add the attribute 'tags:' to the search term :
http://www.geonames.org/search.html?q=tags%3Askiresort

And if you want to search for tags of a particular user (or your own) then you append '@username' to the tag. Like this :
http://www.geonames.org/search.html?q=tags%3Askiresort%40marc

Currently those really marvelous "user tags"-searches do not provide any result. Is the function call somehow changed?

Everything else on geonames.org is great as ever!

thanks. there was a bug with processing the tags on the website search.

Best

Marc