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FAQ - frequently asked questions -> Importing the GeoNames Dump into mysql -> Go to message
Thanks, I have updated the script. We have recently increased the population column to be large enough for continents and the entire planet.

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Marc
General -> Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport -> Go to message
Hi Alex

Yes, the main name should be an international name.

I have increased your userlevel and the one of German to 2. The userlevel helps protect toponyms against mistakes and vandalism.

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Marc
Administrative Divisions -> Admin1 Codes not unique and orpahaned Admin2 codes -> Go to message
You are right I found the transformation for the fips codes here:
http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/fips/FIPS10-4CN-01-d.pdf
The database has been updated with this transformation.

Somehow I cannot copy the relevant part I have therefore added a screenshot.

I didn't know WLMS. It looks great, though it is not free and for the administrative divisions I was thinking about polygons for the administrative divisions. Some countries do publish them, it is just tricky to find them.

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Marc
General -> Best way to implement name search in Geoname database -> Go to message
The code is not available. I simply don't have the time to also provide support for this.

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Marc
General -> How does maxRows work? -> Go to message
The maxRows does not affect the sorting. It just returned the first n rows as sorted by the full text search engine. The sort function depends on a lot of factors like: the name (term frequency/inverse document frequency), feature code, population, country, etc.

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Marc
Administrative Divisions -> Admin1 Codes not unique and orpahaned Admin2 codes -> Go to message
Doug

The file "admin1Codes.txt" includes obsolete admin divisions. The file "admin1CodesASCII.txt" has the current admin divisions only. For the current admin divisions two were missing an admincode1 (Vientiane), I have added them and they will show up tomorrow.
In the database some records are still attached to obsolete admin divisions because we don't know yet where they now belong to.

The easiest way to update them would be with polygon information of the current province borders. Do you know whether some Southeast Asian countries make these polygons available?

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Marc
General -> Uptime -> Go to message
There is a chart of the availability of the free web service in this thread:
http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/1335.page#5603


If you need high availability I can only recommend the commercial services:
http://www.geonames.org/commercial-webservices.html


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Marc
General -> Best way to implement name search in Geoname database -> Go to message
The GeoNames search is not database driven. It is a dedicated fulltext search index.

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Marc
Postal Codes -> MALAYSIA ZIP CODE -> Go to message
GeoNames does not yet have postal codes for Malaysia.

Marc
Forum in Deutsch -> Verwendung von Wildcards -> Go to message
Es handelt sich um einen Bug im Handling von Umlauten bei der startsWith Suche. Leider hatte ich noch nicht die Gelegenheit mich darum zu kümmern.

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Marc
General -> Airport IATA Codes -> Go to message
iata:3596
icao:7019
General -> georss-rome 0.9.8 Sample Codes -> Go to message
Hi

I have the impression complex polygons are not fully implemented. So you could use the LineString class:
http://georss.geonames.org/javadoc/com/sun/syndication/feed/module/georss/geometries/LineString.html

I am not using .NET and don't know any APIs for it. You may find information on the georss website: http://www.georss.org/

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Marc
Administrative Divisions -> Large number of locations added incorrectly to Chatham Islands in New Zealand -> Go to message
Thanks.

The "Chatham Islands" were missing an admin1 code. They had the code '00' that stands for 'not known' or 'generic feature'. I have changed it to the fips code '10'.

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Marc
Administrative Divisions -> ADM2 Codes in Brazil -> Go to message
Oisín

I think the most recent version of sql server has some spatial functions. I am using postgres with the postgis extension.

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Marc
General -> How to setup timezone database -> Go to message
It is not planed for the foreseable future to release anything that is not in the focus of the project. I hardly manage to find enough time for the important stuff related to the focus of the project (a gazetteer) and definitely don't have the time for other things.

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Marc
General -> Use of filter Date in Earthquakes WebService -> Go to message
Arnaud

You are using it correctly. I have investigated and found that the earthquakes have not been properly stored in our database for some months due to a format change in the input feed. I have made the modifications to deal with the input changes and it is again storing properly, but the earthquakes of the past months remain missing in the history database.

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Marc
General -> Airport IATA Codes -> Go to message
IATA and ICAO codes are in the alterate names table with the pseudo language code 'iata' and 'icao'.

Marc
Postal Codes -> Postal code data with ascii names -> Go to message
I am afraid we don't have other place names then the ones included in the dump.

Marc
General -> How do I get a list of cities, region, country for a given city through the webservice -> Go to message
It is in the xml element 'adminName1':
http://ws.geonames.org/search?q=burlington&maxRows=10&style=full
Postal Codes -> would be really nice if data contained geoname_id -> Go to message
Many postal codes have geonameIds in the database, but it is not yet complete and there is no time table to complete it.

Marc
 
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