GeoNames Forum

This capability of changing countries is yet limited to you, isn't it?

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Jobrafo

I don't know. Maybe they are separated just to display better on paper maps.

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Jobrafo

Hi marc,

auf der von Dir angegebenen Seite klappt es problemlos, ebenso auf der Seite http://www.geonames.org/export/ajax-postalcode-autocomplete-2.html , die ja ISO-8859-1-codiert ist.
Setze ich mein Meta-tag auf ISO-8859-1, werden aber trotzdem keine Umlaute angezeigt (wohl aber in den anderen Texten auf der Seite). Strange!

Ich versuche nachher mal UTF-8 und melde mich dann wieder.

Gruß
rigo

marc wrote:

Hallo Erik

Da war wirklich der Wurm drin, Ich habe den Fehler behoben. Vielen Dank für die Meldung.

Gruss

Marc

COOL DANKE

Erik

Hi Marc,

Thanks for your reply, much appreciated, i have been looking into this further and in reference to your point 2:

I am using a MySQL database and have referred to their documentation and found the bit in the manual about spacial extensions - all way over my head if I am honest!

They list data values as GEOMETRY, POINT, LINESTRING, POLYGON - I think I need to somehow convert long and lats for both my properties and the placenames into POINTS is this correct? to then be able to calculate my initial query of showing properties within [x] distance of [placename].

If so I have to understand how to install these spatial extensions and then I guess create a new field in both tables called 'Point' which these new extensions will automatically populate.

Could you give me feedback on this or if there are any simple tutorials / code examples etc as I am a bit stumped to say the least. If this query is however outside the scope of this forum, just let me know and I will plod slowly onwards.

Thanks again. James.

Hi marc

marc wrote:

I have to delete the country code manually. Just tell me when you add a new region and I will delete the country code.

Marc

http://www.geonames.org/maps/google_42.0_2.0.html

Please, you delete the country code.

Thank you

Ok I have got this far:

Have managed to convert all my properties to include X, Y coordinates, Longitude and Latitude

and a list of town names along with their respective X, Y coordinates, Lonitude and Latitude.

Now just need to find a way of typing a town name and quering the respective long/lat with that of each property within a certain x miles.

Feels like I have got well underway for someone who is pretty clueless with this sort of stuff, any guidance on the next step would be greatly appreciated.

James

Vazireh is marked as Italy, Lazio, but is in Iran.
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Jobrafo

Piazza di San Petro is marked as "Italy, Lazio", but it should be part of the Vatican City.

I guess you don't have the borders of the Vatican City in the system?

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Jobrafo

I see that in the island of Puerto Rico there are lots of Administrative Divisions like "Orocovis Municipio" and "Orocovis, Municipio de".

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico#Administrative_divisions , "As an unincorporated territory of the United States, Puerto Rico does not have any first-order administrative divisions as defined by the U.S. Government, but there are 78 municipalities at the second level (Mona Island is not a municipality, but part of the municipality of Mayagüez)."

I guess that you could program something to convert every Adminstrative division in Puerto Rico with a name like "*, Municipio de" to a 2nd order administrative division with a name "Municipio de *", adding es:* as an alternate name.

It seems that the "* Municipio" spots are English-language duplicates of the "*, Municipio de". They seem to be located apart of the Spanish ones so I don't know if you could easily merge them as English alternate names.

I am not sure if the Spanish names should be given priority over the English ones, don't know enough of the Puerto-Rican organization. In that case, make "Municipio de *" the alternate name.

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Jobrafo

Hi,

First of all great site and loads of really useful info. Just wanted to know if the following would be possible using the webservice/text file dump and if so how I should go about it.

I have a database of properties for sale (UK) each property obviously has the postcode in the ms access database.

On the website, I would like users to type in a placename (UK town) and then have the option of selecting a radius i.e within 10 miles. From here the results will display only the properties that match this criteria.

Is this possible? if so could you point me in the right direction to get started.

I would really appreciate any information possible, thanks in advance

James

Hallo Marc,

ich glaube, daß im Script e http://ws.geonames.org/wikipediaSearch ein Bug drin ist:
Unter <population> werden keine Einwohner angezeigt.

Unter http://ws.geonames.org/wikipediaBoundingBox? funktioniert alles.

Grüße Erik

Hier die vollen Links:

Istanbul:
http://ws.geonames.org/wikipediaBoundingBox?srv=121&north=44.1&south=-9.9&east=-22.4&west=55.2

http://ws.geonames.org/wikipediaSearch?q=istanbul&maxRows=10

Around jCape Canaveral, there are several "Launch Complexes", that have no feature code.
I tried to mark them as "Space centers" but I get "error while saving:".

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Jobrafo

Thanks for your nice system - its great.

I'm using your service with javascript with the url:

request = 'http://ws.geonames.org/findNearbyPostalCodesJSON?lat=' + point.y + '&lng=' + point.x + '&callback=getLocation';

and its working very good.

I found the query http://ws.geonames.org/wikipediaSearch and I got the problem to access it with java-script.

Is there a JSON query too for the wikipedia search like

http://ws.geonames.org/wikipediaSearchJSON?q=cologne&maxRows=10&lang=de

It would be a nice help.

Erik

erik (-at-) koelschwasser (point) de

hi,

I think that simplest he is most natural. The natural thing is to always put the name in the own language of the place. It is, by justice, to have which we cannot do without.

Greetings

hi marc, hi Jobrafo.

The Parlament de Catalunya is the National Parlamient of Catalonia, and represents the people of Catalonia. Its democratic origins give the Parliament supreme force and make it the most important institution of the Generalitat, from which all the rest are created. The Parliament of Catalonia is made up of a single chamber or house, is independent and inviolable.

The Parliament of Catalonia is a political institution of Catalonia, does not matter if it is in the city or park, the important thing is the institution and it is due to describe like so.

In this case we did not describe a building, we described the political and real content of a very important political institution for this country that is Catalonia

It is evident that a national institution as is a Parliament, is not including in the Feature Codes. It would have to be including, like Parliament, governmental Institution or any other representation.

I rectify the description of the Parlament de Catalunya for the building, the palace of the Parlament.. Yes which I add a new entrance of the Parlament leaving it in target until a Feature Codes can describe it.

Greetings and ahead with the work.

abat sise

Note: I cannot be registered in the forum, I have to enter like anonymous.

I have corrected somebody's edition of the parliament as a "Country house".
In http://www.geonames.org/export/codes.html:
HSEC country house a large house, mansion, or chateau, on a large estate

I understand that as a countryside building.

The Parliament is in the city, in a park. From its history pages, it has been a museum, barracks and other things, but never a mansion.

I don't find a better description than "building".
ADMF administrative facility a government building
could work but I understand it more as some government offices.

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Jobrafo

I see that in the database dump, there are more than 10 000 places in United States with feature code PPL (populated place) and a name that contains the word "subdivision".

For example, there are 2 "Little Italy (subdivision)" (one in California, the other in New York). Other places in this case seem to be Mobile Home Parks.

Maybe I am not understanding the purpose of the different feature codes, but... shouldn't these 'subdivisions' be considered sections of populated places (PPLX)? In the case of Little Italy seems clear to me, in the other cases I don't know, because after doing some research I've discovered that there is something called CDPs ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census-designated_place ) in US, and then I thought that maybe some of the subdivisions are CDPs.

xavi

It would work. Can topics live forever? So that if, after one year, you dispute a toponym, you can read the old discussion and add your thoughts.

Another feature from Wikipedia that I miss is watchlists.
This can lead to turfization, with people becoming emotionally attached to "my toponyms", but the alternative is that your laborious changes get reverted while you are not looking.

Searching for Han Yunis gives:
1 Han Yunis
Han Yunis United States, US.Han Yunis N 31° 21' 0'' E 34° 17' 24''

It seems a duplicate for Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip.

The strange thing is that Han Yunis is marked as part of the United States and I cannot see it the Google Map.

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Jobrafo