GeoNames Forum

Hi,

is it possible to split the alternatenames dump by country and perhaps include that file in the country-specific zip?

At the moment, I have to insert all the data into my database (I have to use hsqldb, so I can't "load" the data), and hope that hsqldb doesn't choke on a big join...

Regards,
Hakan

Hakan

It think it is not a problem for most users and splitting it would make the dumps directory look more complicated. We already have a lot of users who don't understand that the allCountries file is the same thing as the individual country files. Adding two hundred more files would make it even more difficult to understand for many users.

Marc

O.k., in that case, I'll put a preprocessing step in my application.

Or try to get access to a "real" database

Regards,
Hakan