GeoNames Forum

Hi,

I am wondering which name the 'name' attribute in the features dump actually refers to. Is it the preferred name ? The short one ? The NGA/american preferred name ?

What looks weird to me is that some arabic cities have a westernish name (like Algiers : http://www.geonames.org/2507480/algiers.html), and others, like feature #1128216 : http://www.geonames.org/1128216/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AD-%D8%A2%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AF.html have a name in arabic).

Thanks,
sami

Hi Sami

The 'name' should actually be the international name. There is something wrong with the second features. One of the western looking names should be in the 'name' field.

Marc

If it can help you troubleshoot the problem, the features that behave like #1128216 are all of those which do not have any asciiname in the dump. (null or empty string)