GeoNames Forum

Burnaby Lake is a lake and not a city, since it has feature code LK, which stands for lake. There are also three global citiesXXX file in the download directory with three subsets of large cities (difference in size of cities included in file)

Marc

The postal code data itself is not yet editable, but you can add postal codes ad alternate names to the gazetteer data with pseudo language code 'post'.

Marc

Thanks, I have moved the entry for Portugal to the center.

Hi

Credit usage is only reported for premium users. The free api does not support this feature. The focus in on providing core functionality.

Regards

Marc

Hi

No, I am afraid this is currently not possible.

Marc

Hi

must be an error in your import script. The field separater in the files is the tabulator.

Marc

Hi Patrick

Thanks. The wrong spelling of "Fosses-La-Ville" has been corrected.

Marc

Thanks. Will be fixed.

Marc

you are right, the java client does not yet support multiple countries in the search parameters. This functionality will be added with the next release. The documention you refer to is for the web service. The client is just a subset of it.

Marc

Thanks. The largest city page is in English and the names should consequently also be in English.
The main toponym name should be in English. Unfortunatley some contributors prefer local languages. This is not a big issue as long as the names are in the alternate names table with the correct language code.

Marc

Hi Bernt

The main toponym name should be in English. Local languages can be defined as alternate names. The cities15000 includes all populated places with some administrative function or with a population over 15000. It has a feature code PPLX which indicates it is a neighbourhood. A district at the other hand is normally an adminstrative entry with featureclass A.

Regards

Marc

Hi

Thanks. I have deleted 5897885 as it really is a duplicate.
In most cases when people complain about duplicates they just wrongly assume that a place name has to be unique for a country.

Regards

Marc

thanks, there was a bug in a newest development version on the free servers. It has been fixed.

Marc

I cannot reproduce the problem. Probably a server overload during some peak time. For reliable responses I suggest to use the premium services.

The osm service is accessing an other database and therefore using a different connection pool.

Hi

You can calculate the smalles circle around your polyon and query with the center coordinates and the radius of the circle. You can then filter the result with the polyon. The geonames web service do not yet accept polygon input parameters.

Marc

Hallo Tom

In Deutschland gibt es erst einige Bundesländer, die Grenzinformationen freigeben haben (Bayern, Baden Württemberg). Für die anderen Bundesländer sind die tieferen adm levels deshalb noch nicht befüllt.

Gruss

Marc

This is perfectly possible, why shouldn't it be possible?

This domain is slow since last Sunday because of too many requests. This domain is obsolete and was replaced 2 years ago with the domain api.geonames.org. The api subdomain requires an application identifier to protect the server from heavy usage by single applications.

You should use the api.geonames.org domain:
http://geonames.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/application-identification-for-free-geonames-web-services/

Hi

Thanks a lot for the list.

I have a doubt with the place names in the list. According to this wikipedia page the additional placenames are not listed in the column 'post town', but rather in the column 'coverage':
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BT_postcode_area

Couldn't it be misleading if we were to add them in the same way as the other entries?

Best Regards

Marc

I have seen this. This part sounds like some kind of attributions license, which is ok for us. The problem is in the second phrase on the gfoss page
"Salvo diverso specifico accordo, invece, non è permessa la riproduzione, anche parziale, a fini di commercializzazione e in generale ogni utilizzazione dell'opera che possa configurare una lesione del diritto d'autore."
(http://geodati.gfoss.it/wiki/index.php/Dati_liberi_-_Localit%C3%A0_Istat)