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General -> rss to georss -> Go to message
Hi Andy

The documentation of the service is here:http://www.geonames.org/rss-to-georss-converter.html

You need to add the parameter 'feedUrl' and assign it with the url:
http://ws.geonames.org/rssToGeoRSS?feedUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.weather.gov%2Falerts-beta%2Fak.atom

Marc
General -> I have a paid account but can't seem to get my password (password reminder doesn't email!) -> Go to message
I have over 350000 bounce backs in my email account, as spammer are using the geonames.org domain to send spam and I get all the bounce backs. Not a single one is from you and sending the email from the server works fine. The log is in a PM.

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Marc
Postal Codes -> Accuracy of Australian postal codes -> Go to message
I am a little bit confused.
Look for instance at these two lines:
5700 137.689413382 -32.6049113419
5710 134.785990532 -29.3441490006

Shouldn't they be both nearby? 5700 looks ok, but I doubt that 5710 is really at the other side of the continent. I fear something went wrong when these guys extracted the data from the original files. Do you see which of the original files contains postal codes? Then we could use the original file instead.

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Marc
General -> How did Geonames get the long/lat of cities? -> Go to message

magali.giaume wrote:
Can you tell me how did you get the long/lat of cities 
http://www.geonames.org/data-sources.html

magali.giaume wrote:
Does it come from wikipedia? 
No.


Marc
General -> Too Slow to Retrieve -> Go to message
If you want to be sure to have permanently good response times you can sign up with the commercial version:
http://www.geonames.org/commercial-webservices.html

Marc
General -> Too Slow to Retrieve -> Go to message
http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/1374.page

Marc

PS: I have deleted your duplicate posting.
Postal Codes -> Accuracy of Australian postal codes -> Go to message
sounds perfect.

Marc
General -> Geonames download section crawling/dead? -> Go to message
The download server is one of several servers used to serve the free web service requests. In the last two or three days we are experiencing problems due to too much load on all these servers. This affects also the download section.

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Marc
Postal Codes -> Accuracy of Australian postal codes -> Go to message
this would be a great contribution. Thanks a lot.

Marc
FAQ - frequently asked questions -> weatherJSON coordinates help -> Go to message
I think you want to use the findNearByWeatherJSON service. The weatherJSON requires a bounding box (= two coordinates) and not a single coordinate.

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Marc
General -> I have a paid account but can't seem to get my password (password reminder doesn't email!) -> Go to message
It seems you don't get any of my emails. I have now changed your email address to my own, used the password reset function, posted you the new password in a private message to your forum user and set the email back to your own email address.

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Marc
General -> I have a paid account but can't seem to get my password (password reminder doesn't email!) -> Go to message
The password email must be in the spam folder, I don't see an other explanation. The url for the account page now also understands the trailing slash and the 404 page is fixed. The 404 error page was static and had the username 'marc' in the top corner. Of course you were not logged in as 'marc', it was just a copy-paste error when creating the static 404 error page.

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Marc
General -> how to get a List of countries -> Go to message
If you like the children service you can start with the Earth
http://www.geonames.org/6295630/earth.html and navigate down to the continents and then the countries.

The country ids are also in the countryInfo file:
http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/countryInfo.txt

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Marc
FAQ - frequently asked questions -> System Integration -> Go to message
It depends on the system architecture of the website. When you generate the web pages on the server then you will parse the GeoRSS on the server and generate the pages with the information. Otherwise if you have more an ajax site then you will implement it on the client side.

Marc
General -> different results in the webpage and the query findNearby -> Go to message
It is the same server but the second query is directly from the database whereas the first is from a search index. I have updated all databases and synchonized all search indices. All you points should be corrected. Except for the one where more than 50 toponyms have been found and only the first 50 are displayed, in this case you have to zoom in to see the peak you are looking for.

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Marc
Administrative Divisions -> Admin1 Codes not unique and orpahaned Admin2 codes -> Go to message
A have spent some time over the weekend to update the data for Yemen as it seems to important to so many of you.

As a general rule: please contribute actively to the project. Posting some general comments about missing data is not helpful. If you miss something then help add or fix it: http://www.geonames.org/manual.html


Marc
General -> Fuzzy Search -> Go to message
What you are describing is often called the "Levenshtein distance". If you are searching on a lot of words then I would not waste time implementing a fuzzy search algorithm but instead look for a nice library in your coding environment that does it for you. Unless you do it for learnings sake of course then it is an interesting task to implement it efficiently on large number of documents.

Marc
FAQ - frequently asked questions -> I have not received a confirmation email. -> Go to message
The most likely reason for not receiving a confirmation email is that our email was filtered by a spam blocker. If you check the location where your “spam” is stored you should find the email.
General -> I have a paid account but can't seem to get my password (password reminder doesn't email!) -> Go to message
Please check your spamfolder, the emails must be there. I have answered your emails and I am pretty sure the password function works correctly.

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Marc
General -> user and toponyms history -> Go to message
Hi Michele

You are right, a dump of the entire history is not yet implemented. I have once started to implement a notification mechanism, but I think it is not yet finished.

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Marc
 
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