GeoNames Forum

hi all

when I search by place name, sometimes I get more than one result e.g.

http://ws.geonames.org/search?name=farnworth&country=GB

I'd like some way for my users to be able to select the correct 'farnworth'. Here are some possible solutions:

1. display admin area 2 alongside the placename
2. find the places nearest to each result then display the results as "farnworth (near foo)" and "farnworth (near bar)"

I can't do #1 because the data doesn't contain admin area 2 information, and I can't do #2 because findNearbyPlaceName only returns one place for a given lat/lng .

Can anyone suggest an alternative strategy?

thanks
dave

Hi

The problem is that we do not have many ADM1 information for the UK. We could derive the information from these boundary files from National Statistics : http://www.statistics.gov.uk/geography/boundaries.asp

However, it is doubtful that this is within the terms of use, but you could try asking.

Cheers

Marc