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bognerart



Joined: 28/05/2007 23:18:02
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This is a position in the center of St. Wolfgang im Salzkammergut, in Upper Austria.

http://ws.geonames.org/findNearbyPostalCodes?lat=47.73824&lng=13.44796

<postalcode>5360</postalcode>
http://ws.geonames.org/postalCodeSearch?country=AT&postalcode=5360&maxRows=1
<name>Dietelbach</name>

http://www.google.at/search?num=100&hl=de&as_qdr=all&q=Dietelbach&btnG=Suche&meta=cr%3DcountryAT
4 results

http://www.google.at/search?num=100&hl=de&as_qdr=all&q=St.+Wolfgang+im+Salzkammergut&btnG=Suche&meta=cr%3DcountryAT
114.000 results

AFAIK the 1st place (name) depends on the search result in the web and in this case there are a lot of results from Dietelbach in Germany.

So I make the suggestion to limit the search to queried country.
marc



Joined: 08/12/2005 07:39:47
Messages: 4412
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Hi

The default value for places without any hits in the search engine was too high, I have changed this, but "St. Wolfgang im Salzkammergut" is still not on top, 'Au' has more hits in the search engine.

Cheers

Marc

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