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Postal codes around Miami are listed as being in the county of Dade but the actual county name from the toponym db is Miami-Dade. Since I know now that you do some linking with the actual city name of the postal code, are these ever updated?

1) As I've said on the mailing list, this is an incorrect model. Postal codes have a loose connection to political incorporations and often have one-to-many or many-to-one relationships. Therefore, I consider the "post" language code to be a hack that is unusable for serious applications where it's not okay being a town or two off. You really need a separate place entity that is a postal code and then perhaps you can use the alternate names to provide a useful mapping between the two. What is the problem with giving them identity so they can be pushed around like everything else in geonames?

2) I have no problem with the 100m thing since it might look better on maps if it's actually centered in a small town. However, it is 433m from the centroid to the Coogee placemark at it's current placement and 1401m to the previous more incorrect placemark in the water, so perhaps the 100m calculation is not working correctly.

I don't understand your English. However, if I interpret this defensively, I would be more than happy to update the lat/lons myself. However, there is no way to update things in bulk nor do I believe there is a way to change the zip code lat/lons at all. So I have to rely on marc to be able to change them with a script.

Any word on this? Could you finish updating the postal code lat/lons? They are embarassing in several cases when I view them on maps (putting them two cities over/in the middle of water).

http://ws.geonames.org/postalCodeSearch?postalcode=2034&maxRows=10&style=full&country=au

<lat>-33.9166667</lat>
<lng>151.2666667</lng>

centroids-xy.tsv:

2034 151.25464994 -33.9243611512

I was pretty excited when I found this thread, since I had noticed some strangeness with Australian postal codes. However, when I downloaded the latest data file, I noticed that the postal codes via the web or the data dump haven't been updated as per the data file in this thread. Was this actually completed?