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webbie



Joined: 20/01/2014 04:35:17
Messages: 1
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Hello,

I see that for statenames and cities you use english. terms For ex:

City/State

"Amsterdam" - "North Holland"

In "The neherlands" we call this state name "Noord Holland"

Do you offer citynames, and statenames in the language of the country they reside in?

Regards,
webbie
pdeboeck22



Joined: 06/10/2014 00:15:26
Messages: 2
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Yes, I was just doing this:

Example request:

http://ws.geonames.org/searchJSON?&name_startsWith=holland&featureCode=PCLI&style=full&lang=en&searchlang=en&isNameRequired=true

Note that I add my premium account details (which i can't add here)
&geonameId=<mynumberhere>&username=<myaccountnamehere>


response with holland name in each language, which you can allegedly filter on with &searchLang=en&lang=en

(but i'm finding this doesn't work for &name_startsWith param)


geonames: [
{
adminCode1: "00",
lng: "5.75",
geonameId: 2750405,
timezone: {
gmtOffset: 1,
timeZoneId: "Europe/Amsterdam",
dstOffset: 2
},
bbox: {
east: 7.227944374084473,
south: 50.7539176940918,
north: 53.55514144897461,
west: 3.362555980682373
},
toponymName: "Kingdom of the Netherlands",
countryId: "2750405",
fcl: "A",
population: 16645000,
adminName5: "",
adminName4: "",
score: 217.8436737060547,
adminName3: "",
alternateNames: [
{
name: "Nederland",
lang: "af"
},
{
name: "Nɛdɛland",
lang: "ak"
},
{
name: "ኔዘርላንድ",
lang: "am"
},
{
name: "Países Baixos",
lang: "an"
},
{
name: "Niðerland",
lang: "ang"
},
{
name: "هولندا",
lang: "ar"
},
{
name: "ܗܘܠܢܕܐ",
lang: "arc"
},
{
name: "Países Baxos",
lang: "ast"
},
{
name: "Hollandiya",
lang: "az"
},
{
name: "Нідэрланды",
lang: "be"
},
{
name: "Холандия",
lang: "bg"
},
{
name: "Peyiba",
lang: "bm"
},
{
name: "হল্যাণ্ড",
lang: "bn"
},
{
name: "ཧའོ་ལན།",
lang: "bo"
},
{
name: "Izelvroioù",
lang: "br"
},
{
name: "Holandija",
lang: "bs"
},
{
name: "Països Baixos",
lang: "ca"
},
{
name: "Nizozemsko",
lang: "cs"
},
{
name: "Yr Iseldiroedd",
lang: "cy"
},
{
name: "Holland",
lang: "da"
},
{
name: "Niederlande",
lang: "de"
},
{
name: "ནེ་དར་ལེནཌསི",
lang: "dz"
},
{
name: "Nedalands nutome",
lang: "ee"
},
{
name: "Ολλανδία",
lang: "el"
},
{
name: "Netherlands",
lang: "en"
},
{
name: "Nederlando",
lang: "eo"
},
{
name: "Holanda",
lang: "es"
},
{
name: "Madalmaad",
lang: "et"
},
{
name: "Herbehereak",
lang: "eu"
},
{
name: "هلند",
lang: "fa"
},
{
name: "Nederlannda",
lang: "ff"
},
{
name: "Alankomaat",
lang: "fi"
},
{
name: "Niðurlond",
lang: "fo"
},
{
name: "Pays-Bas",
lang: "fr"
},
{
name: "Payis-Bâs",
lang: "frp"
},
{
name: "Nederlân",
lang: "fy"
},
{
name: "An Ísiltír",
lang: "ga"
},
 
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