GeoNames Forum

first, thanks for such a great service! Badly needed and very much appreciated, thanks guys.

One thing I'd like to be able to to do is given a geonamesid for a location, look up it's parent locations to form a hierarchy. So if you have the id for a district of a town, you'd then be able to get the town itself, followed by the state, followed by the country.

is anything like this possible?

Great

I'll pop that up tomorrow morning, as well as a little note here on what we're doing.

Terrific. Do you have a standard format or graphic for the credit/attribution?

hallo marc

besten dank! nun funktionierts wie gewünscht!
eine kleine frage noch:
suche ich mit http://ws.geonames.org/search?name_startsWith=ber&lang=de so erscheinen die verschiedenen ortschaften, welche mit 'ber' beginnen, jedoch sind sie nicht alphbetisch geordnet. so kommt z. B. die ortschaft bermuda vor bergamo. Ist es möglich mit dem parameter name_startsWith eine suche durchzuführen, welche die namen in alphabetischer reihenfolge liefert?

schon mal danke für deine antwort!

Hi there.

I try to combine several services on the web, and I was happy to see that the geonames web services use the ISO 3166 standard for country codes. Now, according to the website of iso.org (link below), the country code for United Kingdom should be 'GB', but the search service returned me 'UK'. Can this be fixed please?

http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/list-en1.html

Greetz, Kevin (from Belgium)

Thanks Marc,

this new feature will be very useful!

Maybe you should add this modification in the Geonames search Webservices Description Page.

Mathieu

hallo,

ich weis ich bin nicht der erste und werde sicher auch nicht der letzte sein, der für dieses projekt ein großes lob aussprechen muss, es ist echt klasse.

ich habe mal an einem projekt gearbeitetet, bei dem man distanzen innerhalb des großraums deutschland-österreich-schweiz bestimmen musste. damals gab es glaube ich, dieses projekt hier noch nicht (habe hier irgentwas von ende 2005 gelesen, richtig?)

mittlerweile will ich gerne etwas realisieren mit dem man eine reise innerhalb europas verfolgen kann, wozu auch die einzeldistanzen und die daraus resultierende gesamtstrecke nötig ist. nur leider weis ich nicht so ganz, wo ich die entsprechenden daten her bekommen soll, hab mich schon überall umgeschaut und bin jetzt hier gelandet.

mit den daten, die hier zum download zur verfügung stehen komme ich nicht so richtig klar, sie sind einfach zu umfangreich. (kleine frage am rande, was befindet sich da eigentlich alles drin, das man auf ca. 150.000 einträge allein für deutschland kommt?) bei meinem alten projekt war mir die openGeoDB eine große hilfe, aber leider enthält sie hauptsächlich nur deutschland, österreich und die schweiz, und ein bisschen von belgien und den niederlanden. (womit wir wieder bei der fülle der daten wären, in der openGeoDB sind für deutschland ca 15000 einträge, also nur 10 % ... und ich habe bis jetzt noch keine lücke entdeckt)

gibt es die möglichkeit die datenbanken mit den postleitzahlen, den entsprechenden orten und ganz wichtig den geodaten herunterzuladen? das hier ist fast meine letzte hoffnung, denn ansonten wüste ich fast nicht mehr, wo ich noch suchen könnte.

liebe grüße und besten dank im voraus

mario

Hi,

I would like to do a query using the WebServices.
How can I do to search on several country, but not all.

I try this way :
http://ws.geonames.org/search?q=myquery&country=FR&country=GP
or this way:
http://ws.geonames.org/search?q=lac&country=GP,FR

but it's not working.

Any idea please?

Thanks for your help

There seems to be some errors with postal code geocoding for Mumbai, India. The postal code divisions are there, but the coordinates are spread all over India - I can't see an obvious pattern or correction that could be made.

Try 400049 (Juhu) or Vile Parle (400057 east and 400056 for west). These are scattered across the sub-continent, despite being walking distance apart in real life!

The database has these coded with an odd spelling for Mumbai, which may be because the codes are known to be wrong already:
Admin1=Maharashtra Admin2=Mumbbai

Apart from that, other Indian postcodes I've checked have been spot on, and South African ones too generally (except some odd Cape Town ones). Keep up the excellent work!

best wishes
Anand

Great resource, thanks for making all of this available! I downloaded the allCountries.zip and have been playing around with it.

One thing I can't figure out: How can I find all the second-level administrative areas within a first-level administrative level? Using the U.S. as an example, how can I get all of the counties within a state?

Hi Marc

Thats Greate!!! I can see it....

Thanks
Sameer
http://www.globefeed.com

Technically GB and UK are different places.

GB stands for Great Britain (e.g. England, Wales and Scotland), while UK means The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. So in official documents you'll nearly always see UK (for example in my passport and drivers licience) while alot of people still use GB as a synonym for UK. Also the plate on the back of cars from the UK is GB.

According to http://www.jhall.demon.co.uk/currency/ it was to do with Ukraine, which fits with what I believed too.

The use of "GB" for "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" surprises some people. However, the United Kingdom and the Ukraine both wanted "UK" so rather than start World War III over the matter, the United Kingdom was assigned "GB" and the Ukraine was assigned "UA."

Thank you for the fast action!

With lat="37.373636" lng="-121.972146", or lat="37.372783" lng="-121.974549", the zip code should be 95051. But the returned code was 95120 before the change, and is 95054 now.
Please also correct this.

Thank you again!

Check the Wikipedia Bounding box web service integration with google map to see the problem at
http://www.globefeed.com

With lat="37.3875" lng="-121.9635", I got a returned zip code of 95120, but the correct one should be 95054.
Could you correct this? Or how could we help correct the database?

Hi,

When I tried integrating results from Wikipedia Bounding Box Web service to google map with limited number of results(using maxRows=10), the Results are not spread evenly, but they get collected arround some point of the map area.
The algorithm similar to cities web service should be used to spread the result evenly.

Thanks
Sameer

Hi,
Can we get an API to search for findNearbyPlace given longitude and latitude. I need this in order to run it locally with out any internet connection. Reply me asap.

Thanks in advance

Another one i found: in french news paper "le monde", it shows an article about "new orleans" in orleans in france...

Hi,

In the documentation of this web service maxRows parameter is specified, but when I am using it, it is not affecting the result. Am I doing anything wrong

I want this maxRows so that I will able to implement it with google map simlilar to cities like in
http://www.globefeed.com
please help...

Thanks Marc

Great Work...
But I think some parameters like maxRows,style are missing in the Wikipedia Bounding box Web Service.
The maxRows is realy important parameter to get limited data

Please update me on this.

Sameer