GeoNames Forum

Marc,

I note that 25 of the 50 US state names are encoded as "State of X" and the other 25 are encoded as simply "X".

Can we use a consistent format of "X" for the state name?

Although "State of X" is more formal, most United States citizens are accustomed to simply "X" as the name of their state.

Let me know what you think.

Carey

Carey

You are absolutely right, we need to fix this. I will take care of it.

Regards

Marc

Hi Carey

The codes for the US in the adminCodes1 files look now ok.

Marc

Can anyone show me how to get the states or provinces for any given country?

I can get all the countries but seem to be unable to get the states (ie. states in the USA)

Help

the states have the feature code ADM1 in the download files.

Marc

PS: it is not necessary to post the same question twice.

Thanks for the hint about posting! Can you please provide an example on how to obtain the states/provinces for any given country via web service? I'm sure that many will appreciate that. I've been searching for hours on just how to do that with no success.

DB

There are at least two approaches.

The first is to use the hierarchy services and get the children of the US:
http://ws.geonames.org/children?geonameId=6252001

another approach is to use the search service and get all ADM1 for the US:
http://ws.geonames.org/search?&maxRows=100&featureCode=ADM1&country=US

Best

Marc

You provided the answer and the solution...

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!