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How to know which language is used for Alternatenames in geonams data dump?
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05/03/2008 07:16:54
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How to know which language is used for Alternatenames in geonams data dump?
Sam
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In geoname Data Dump we have 4th column for alternate name which is nothing but the synonyms and is in the encoded format.
How will i know which language that data is in ?
How to encode the same?
05/03/2008 22:49:37
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Re:How to know which language is used for Alternatenames in geonams data dump?
marc
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you have an iso language code in the table alternate names. Join the two tables over the geonameid.
Marc
11/03/2008 06:03:07
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Sam
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Thanks for the information.
Can anyone please tell me how to encode the alternate name in database?
11/03/2008 07:59:05
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marc
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Sam
The GeoNames dump files are all using UTF8 encoding.
Marc
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