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General -> Getting hotels, restaurants, churches... how? -> Go to message
I guess you want findNearby with featureClass=S
http://www.geonames.org/export/web-services.html#findNearby

Marc
General -> Problems with brackets -> Go to message
thanks.

The probs with parenthesis have been fixed.

Marc
General -> how to find coordinates of bounding box ? -> Go to message
If you don't have a bounding box, then I don't think you want to use the cities webservice, you are probably more interested in the findNearbyPlaceName service.
http://www.geonames.org/export/web-services.html#findNearbyPlaceName

Marc
General -> How can I contribute to Geonames "children" web-service? -> Go to message
There is an interface. You find the docu here:
http://www.geonames.org/manual.html

Marc
General -> Missing timezomes for some cities -> Go to message
the location of this village is wrong (off the coast in the ocean), it can therefore not be reverse geocoded.
I have deleted this location from the database as it is probably a duplicate to http://www.geonames.org/3518087/san-pedro.html

Marc
Administrative Divisions -> Indonesia -> Go to message
Terry

You are right, a lot of cities have not been updated to the modified data. I have run the reverse geocoder again over all entries for Indonesia.

Marc
General -> Missing timezomes for some cities -> Go to message
As far as I can see all entries you report without timezone are islands. The main focus of the timezone reverse geocoding are populated places. Islands can theoretically include more than one timezone so it could be tricky to assign them a single timezone value.
If you want to contribute this then your help is welcome.

Marc
Postal Codes -> Postal codes for turkey -> Go to message
I have used the following translation table:

*AAUlkKodu *=> Country Code ( ulke == country )
*AAIlNo *=> City id ( il == city -- maybe "province" can be more
suitable)
*AAIlceNo *=> District id (ilce =~ district )
*AASmtBckNo *=> Semt id (see adm. units description below)
*AAMhlKoyNo *=> Neighbourhood or Village id (Mhl - Mahalle ==
Neighbourhood) (Koy == Village)
*AAMhlKoyAdı *=> Name of the Neighbourhood or Village
*AAPostakodu *=> Post code
*AAEskiPostakodu *=> Former post code
*AABelediye(SmtBck)Adı* => Name of the Semt or Township
*AAIlceAdı *=> Name of the district
*AAIlAdı *=> Name of the city
*AAUlkeAdı *=> Country name

Below a screenshot of the first lines.

How should it be mapped to the postal code table?

Marc
Postal Codes -> data for india -> Go to message
The entire database is in the postal code zip files. You probably didn't look properly.

Marc
General -> Some suggestions for feature codes -> Go to message
Hi Fred

There already are too many feature codes and I only want to add new ones if they really make sense (= they are useful to many users) and if there really are entries for the feature code. I don't want to add new feature codes and in the end we have only one or two records for the code or we have similar codes and it is not clear to everybody what the difference is.

Several items on your list are of general interest (fuel station, tram station, supermarket, etc) and I also think it would be possible to contact the data owners (for tram stations for instance). Some of them will probably have data and be ready to share it. Do you have data for some of them?

Marc
Postal Codes -> Boston - 02117 -> Go to message
The lat/lng for 02117 Boston has been changed.

Marc
Postal Codes -> Postcode LA4 in UK is shown in the West End of London? -> Go to message
I have removed the entry for London.

Marc
Discussion of GeoNames Toponyms -> Korea --> South Korea -> Go to message
Hi Mike

I am not sure how useful it is to add 'Korea' as an alternate name to one of the two states. To me 'Korea' is more the entire peninsula than only one of the two countries.

Best

Marc
Administrative Divisions -> Alternate Names for admin1Codes.txt -> Go to message
The admin1Codes files are a subset of the alternateNames file. There is not need to connect them, you use either one or the other, whatever you prefer.

If you want to connect them: They are connected over country code and admin1 codes.

Marc
General -> set cache headers -> Go to message
All geonames web services set a no-cache header deliberatly and it is not planed to change this. The reduction of request would be minimal at the other hand there would be issues with stale caches.

Best

Marc
General -> Simple Example -> Go to message
For a callback you have to use the JSON service. An example of a JSON callback is here:
http://www.geonames.org/export/ajax-postalcode-autocomplete.html

Marc
General -> list of "feature"s for wikipedia results -> Go to message
The findNearbyWikipedia service does not support paging and the startRow parameter is therefore not implemented (for performance reasons). It is not planned to implement it.

Marc
General -> Simple Example -> Go to message
Every service has an example link in the documentation:


For instance gotopo30 as xml:
http://ws.geonames.org/gtopo30?lat=47.01&lng=10.2&style=full&type=XML

Cheers

Marc
General -> Get nearby places -> Go to message
The search service is a search service and not a reverse geocoding service.

You have to use the most generic reverse geocoding service:
http://www.geonames.org/export/web-services.html#findNearby

Marc
General -> Weather Service data source. -> Go to message
Hi Melvin

The weather feed is now read every 30minutes.

Best

Marc
 
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