GeoNames Forum

We have added two new features to the children web service.

1. An element 'numberOfChildren' indicating how many children each toponym has. This information is so far only available for administrative divisions. The numberOfChildren element makes is easier to implement navigation elements on top of this service.

2. We have started to add places (PPL, PPLA, PPLC) to the service when we have reached the last administrative level. You can now start with the Earth, navigate down the continents, countries, administrative divisions and go down to the city level.

As a next step we plan to go down to subsections of populated places (PPLX).

Marc