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General -> Address Parsing -> Go to message
sorry, no address parsing service is available.

Marc
General -> gtopo30 values -> Go to message
-9999 stands for 'undefined'.

Marc
FAQ - frequently asked questions -> Availability and local installation -> Go to message
do not use the www subdomain for web services, this is not supported and will be taken down.
The ws.geonames.org subdomain is currently having problem. For the time being you can use the ws5.geonames.org domain.

Marc
General -> Service availability? -> Go to message
I have enabled ws.geonames.org again to try something. But the result is the same and the server was no longer able accept connections, so I have disabled it again.

ws5.geonames.org will remain active for at least a couple of weeks, so you have time to switch back, but it will not be a permanent option.

Marc
General -> adminCodes vs adminCodesASCII -> Go to message
Dmitry

In an ideal world the cities file would not include any obsolete codes. When the code change is a simple change than we can easily update the code, but if a region has been split into separate regions than we don't know which of the new codes is the right one, so we keep the old one as this information is still better than nothing.
You can help us figuring out what has hapend in this particular case and we can fix it.

Marc
General -> Service availability? -> Go to message
I have temporarily removed the ws.geonames.org domain from the dns setting. You can access the server with the domain name ws5.geonames.org

Marc
General -> About updates -> Go to message
Xil

If you don't want to download the daily files you will have to load the complete dump every now and then.

Best

Marc
General -> Service availability? -> Go to message
The problem since yesterday evening is an enormously popular iphone application called iMob. It is hammering the server with > 100 requests per second which has the effect of a DDOS attack. I am trying to get in touch with the developers to have them remove this feature from their application.

Marc
General -> Service availability? -> Go to message
Hi Sebastian

The server has been overloaded in the last couple of days. We are trying to improve the situation with blocking access for some very heavy users.

Best

Marc
General -> Good autocompletion service needed -> Go to message
too many users have been using the free services these days, which slowed the service down. Sorry.
General -> adminCodes vs adminCodesASCII -> Go to message
Dmitry

It has always been like this. The admin2Codes.txt file includes obsolete codes.

Best

Marc
General -> Differences Between NGA data and GeoNames data -> Go to message
Kazzlo

The NGA database has less than 15000 populated places. What you have been counting are not the populated places but the alternate names. Some places have more than one name. Walberswick for instance is listed nine times in nga:
http://www.geonames.org/2634907/walberswick.html
(nga ufi = -2610762)
In GeoNames it is listed once with the alternate names in the alternate name table.

NGA is therefore 'considerably' smaller than GeoNames.

Best

Marc
Administrative Divisions -> Spain -> Go to message
'PPL' stands for larger groups of buildings where people are permanently living. The administrative and political categorization is modelled with the featureclass 'A'. If some dispersed groups of houses share some administrative and political infrastructure and build a municipality then I wouldn't call them populated place. The entry of featureclass 'A' already expresses the idea of the municipality.
Each group of houses that has a name would get an entry of featureclass 'P', depending on the size a PPL, PPLL or PPLX.


Best

Marc
General -> Number difference alternatenames -> Go to message
Raf.

We have been updating the database with an external datasource (nga) and the alternate name history for the daily modification does not included entries that are directly inserted in the alternatename and alternatename history without updating the main toponym history table.

Marc
Administrative Divisions -> Spain -> Go to message
Xavi

If there is a populated place with the name of "Zigoitia" then there should be an entry for it. On googlemaps I cannot see anything there that looks like a populated place and if it is the name of the municipality put their is no populated place with this name then there should be no entry.

Marc
General -> Alternate Names table Chinese doubt -> Go to message
"zh" stands for both.

From the w3 website:
http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-css-lang.en.php
I have used the language codes "zh-Hant" and "zh-Hans". These language codes do not represent specific languages. "zh-Hant" would indicate Chinese written in Traditional Chinese script. Similarly “zh-Hans” represents Chinese written in Simplified Chinese script. This could refer to Mandarin or many other Chinese languages.

Until recently the codes "zh-TW" and "zh-CN" were used to indicate Traditional and Simplified versions of Chinese writing, respectively. In reality, "zh-TW" should indicate Chinese spoken in Taiwan, although there are more than one Chinese language spoken in Taiwan. Similarly "zh-CN" represents Chinese spoken in China (PRC). This could refer to Mandarin or any other Chinese language. 
General -> Serbia and Montenegro -> Go to message
'Serbia and Montenegro' no longer exists. In the countryinfo it is still included as a reference.
The record with id 6698755 got into the database with a recent update from an external datasource (nga). I have deleted this record.

Thanks for having reported this error.

Best

Marc
General -> Geoname Heirarchy Lookup download -> Go to message
you can read the data from the dump. It is in the admin1-4 fields.

Marc
General -> Strange characters displayed on webpage -> Go to message
utf8 is correct. I guess it is a problem with the way you look at the data. The webpage should also be in utf8 if you print utf8 data.

Best

Marc
General -> How to import the cities data into postgres? -> Go to message
The 'cities' files are just excerpts from the geoname table. The dataformat is identical.

Marc
 
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