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General -> location hierarchy xml in italian language -> Go to message
use the parameter lang=it

Marc
General -> countryInfo.txt contains a UTF BOM -> Go to message
Thanks. It will be removed with the next dump.

Marc
General -> different results in the webpage and the query findNearby -> Go to message
It is not the same server. Some mountains have been added recently to the database and the changes are not yet available on all servers.

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Marc
Postal Codes -> Significant error in coords for 92023 -> Go to message
did you find any errors or is it just a list of differences?
There is no 'correct' lat/lng for a zip code. Zip codes are areas and there are countless way to choose a single lat/lng as representative for a zip code.

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Marc
General -> Duplication in Geonames -> Go to message

razz wrote:
I would contend that there is only 1 "Midway, Texas". I believe the 'real' one is the ...  

I don't think the people living in the other locations called Midway, Texas agree with this. All these entries are from an official US source (USGS) and there is so far no evidence that these locations do not exist. Even when I click on the gmaps mashup then I see a label 'Midway' at many of these locations.
If you are only interested in large cities, then you can take only those places with a population > x, or if you only care about places with their own zip code then use the postal code dump.

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Marc
General -> Duplication in Geonames -> Go to message
What makes you think they are duplicates? They have completely different lat/lng.

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Marc
Administrative Divisions -> Greece trouble -> Go to message

benji07 wrote:
I fill most adminCode1 for adm2 in greece 

Thanks a lot benji07.

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Marc
General -> Duplication in Geonames -> Go to message
The duplicates have been deleted.

Marc
Administrative Divisions -> Township of ________ -> Go to message
Hi Mike

The alternate names have been inserted.

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Marc
Postal Codes -> US zip code 19888 doesn't exist -> Go to message
Thanks, Xavi. The zip codes have been deleted from the database.

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Marc
General -> Wikipedia Data Dump -> Go to message
Justin

Wikipedia is a little bit messy and unstructured because it has so many collaborators who do not agree on anything. For some narrow topic data sets I would look for a global union/community/association/ etc. I guess there should be some lists for zoos out there, that are more structured than wikipedia and that are freely available.

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Marc
FAQ - frequently asked questions -> Missing placename -> Go to message
Hi

The postal code is not always uniquely identifying a place name. For those like 01462 where it is unique we could enhance the missing place name from the postal code data. I will add it to the to-do-list.

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Marc
Postal Codes -> How to contribute? -> Go to message
If you have collected the data yourself then you can define the license you want to release it under. A single postal code is just a number and cannot be copy-righted, but collecting a lot of codes can be a lot of work and thus the collector can decide under which license he wants to give his work to others.

Marc
General -> Is adm1Name, adm2Name etc. a global standard? -> Go to message
It is the GeoNames standard
All countries have some kind of admin hierarchy. GeoNames is modeling the hierarchy with 4 levels from adm1 to adm4.

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Marc
Administrative Divisions -> Greece trouble -> Go to message
Hi

The numbers are the former adm1 codes and we don't know the proper adm1 code. I have removed them (or rather moved them to the adm2 column). The adm1 field will be clean with the next dump.

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Marc
Forum in Deutsch -> PLZ-Suche Länderübergreifend -> Go to message
Hallo

Ich verstehe das Problem nicht ganz. Wenn man keinen country code eingibt und die Suche so einschränkt kommen doch die PLZ aller Länder. Was muss man denn da noch machen?

Marc
Discussion of GeoNames Toponyms -> Rome -> Go to message
Hi Michele

The main name is usually the international name. Imagine a place in China or India, nobody would be able to read these characters. The names in different languages should be in the alternate name table.

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Marc
Discussion of GeoNames Toponyms -> why Tuscany instead of "Regione Toscana" -> Go to message
Hi Michele

Please feel free to make the changes yourself. It is very simple, you just need a user account:
http://www.geonames.org/manual.html

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Marc
General -> How to get city boundary lat/lng details -> Go to message
I don't know of any government providing radius information. They could easily provide the boundary information if they wanted to. For various reasons they don't want to and it will take time to see some changes in this policy, because it would be the job of politicians to change these policies. As we all know politicians all over the world are of the same kind and hardly ever do what would be beneficial for their countries.

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Marc
General -> Wikipedia association with geonames id -> Go to message
John

I do it as often as I manage to find the time. Unfortunately it is a real pain as the wikipedia geo-templates are extremely volatile and the wikipedia-contributors cannot agree on a common template. At the contrary, with every run of the parser a great number of articles disappear from the result because the template it has been using has been changed into something new and the parser needs to be adapted to the changed templates. There are literally hundreds or even thousands of competing templates how coordinates can be included in a wikipedia article. It is a real mess.

Marc
 
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