GeoNames Forum

Hi,

Does anyone know what exactly all the Junctions (especially in the US) are ?
http://www.geonames.org/search.html?q=junction&country=US

Do they really qualify as 'PPL' ? For instance, if you're searching for Cities around Los Angeles, all these junctions are more polluting (street junction, taylor junction, ...) than giving any meaningful result.

So, if someone has an idea of what these junctions exactly are, it would be nice to explain, so that we can change their feature codes...

thanks,
Sami Dalouche

Hi Sami

Some of them are certainly populated places. The data is from the US geological survey who are using the type 'populated place' for them.

There was a similiar discussion some time ago, where we changed everything the USGS has not designated as PPL as road :
http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/143.page

Even among those that don't have population number we find some real cities : http://www.geonames.org/4754808/cross-junction.html

I don't know of an easy way to filter them out. We would have to cross check against population, wikipedia, zip codes and TIGER.

Marc