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General -> update api -> Go to message
Michele

The API exists, but it is not advertised because we want to know who is using it. If you are trustworthy I can send you the link in a pm

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Marc
General -> Timezone errors -> Go to message
thanks jeff. it has been fixed. For Adak/Alaska we are now using the longitude -169.5 as the boundary.

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Marc
General -> Mistakes in CountryInfo at Serbia and Montenegro and Aland Islands -> Go to message
The country 'Serbia and Montenegro' no longer exists and has been removed from the db. It is still in the country info file for backwards reference.

There is no neighbours field for Aland Islands.

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Marc
General -> Puerto Rico and admin1CodesASCII.txt -> Go to message
Many admin divisions are most likely already there:
http://www.geonames.org/advanced-search.html?q=&country=PR&featureClass=A&continentCode=

They are just missing the correct feature code. Someone will have to go through them and decide what they are, add the missing ones and delete the ones that are wrong. The number is not so high, I am not sure whether a batch update would not make more work.

Marc
General -> correct that seach webservice always returns element with featureclass=p first? -> Go to message
No, countries and admin divisions usually have higher relevance than cities. In any case there is no direct ordering by featureclass. It is just one of many factors to determine the returned search result position.

Marc
General -> anyone has attempted to make relations between places and islands? -> Go to message
It has not yet been done as far as I know. With polygon information for islands it would be rather easy to achieve, but without this it is a lot of work. So I would start looking for island polygons.

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Marc
General -> How to get continent? -> Go to message
The continent is determined on the country level. There is no service to determine the continent for a lat/lng.

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Marc
General -> WS error : maxClauseCount -> Go to message
There are too many records, so that the internal query rewritting to search for the places that start with the prefix hits a limit.

Marc
General -> error: org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: The column name CountryCode was not found in this Result -> Go to message
There was some problem with the db connection. I had to restart the application to get rid of the error.

Marc
Administrative Divisions -> District of Columbia -> Go to message
if it not a first order administrative division, what else should it be? I think this correct.

Marc
General -> Wikipedia map questions -> Go to message
The service is using decimal numbers. There are no minutes and seconds you have to do the conversion to decimals.

Marc
General -> mapping between geonameid and yahoo WOEIDs -> Go to message
thanks Britske, we are looking forward to whatever you can do.

Marc
Administrative Divisions -> Problems with Romania -> Go to message
Thanks. I have restored the admin1 codes and added a userlevel check for users changing the country of admin divisions.
General -> Wikipedia map questions -> Go to message
I don't know what you expect. The position 41.53/12.29 is off the coast, and the next entries are miles away.

Cheers

Marc
General -> Australian states and adminCode1 -> Go to message
the search service has been improved and is now also searching over all alternate names of a toponyms admin division.

Marc
General -> Wikipedia map questions -> Go to message
I fear I don't understand your question. If you want to get the Colosseum you have to use the lat/lng of the Colosseum otherwise you will get what ever is close to your lat/lng.

Marc
General -> Nasa Terrain Map published today -> Go to message
Great news. Thanks for the info. A service based on this will certainly be an improvement to what we have now.
I have just tried to download a sample file to check it out. The download fails, I guess I am not the only one who is trying right now.

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Marc
Postal Codes -> Unrecognised postcode -> Go to message
Vicki

GeoNames has your postal code in the database (the ourward part of it):
http://www.geonames.org/postalcode-search.html?q=OX26

There was a bug in the webservice that made it fail to extract the outward part if it had four letters. We have fixed this error but no linkedin it is still not accepted. It is possible that they have a cache and it will work in while or the other explanation is that they have another mechanism to validate postal codes.

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Marc
General -> Australian states and adminCode1 -> Go to message
I have just seen that this thread has not yet received an answer.

Switching from fips to iso would in this case actually be easy for us but probably not so transparent for the users if we switch one country after the other. I think it would be better to switch as many countries as possible.

Adding the abbreviations as alternate names will help to find the admin divisions but it is not yet included in the search index when searching for another place name. The search service will have to be modified for this to work.

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Marc
General -> mapping between geonameid and yahoo WOEIDs -> Go to message
Sure, this would be very useful. Are you interested in helping with it?

Marc
 
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