GeoNames Forum

Hi Alex

I think you are right, the combination of names seems exaggerated and should not be the main or short name. It could be listed as an alternate name.
Please feel free to correct errors like these ones.

Best

Marc

Hallo

In Deutschland führen wir jeweils nur den Hauptort pro Postleitzahl. Wir hatten einmal versucht alle Orte anzuzeigen, zahlreiche Benutzer haben sich dann dafür ausgesprochen nur den Hauptort anzuzeigen.

Gruss

Marc

The free services are currently slow because of too many requests.
Zulu99, what exactly do you expect us to do? Our budget to buy hardware to serve free services is unfortunately limited. You can help us with a donation.

http://www.geonames.org/donations.html

Marc

Hi

The jar has been compiled with java6. You are likely to use an older java version. We have added another jar compiled for java5: http://www.geonames.org/source-code/
This will solve your problem if you are using java5.

Best

Marc

David. There was a typo in my answer above (corrected now). It should have read 'we have NOT yet fixed it in the dump/db.

Marc

Sateesh

Please use the download files: http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/
It is not only unefficient, but also considered rude to abuse the web service to download the full data base. All information is included in the dump files.

I have deleted your other identical post. Please do not spam this forum with identical postings.

Marc

Hi Alleborgo

Part of the translations are cached and deployed with the application. It takes thus some time till changes are visible on all services. Your changes have been deployed on the search server.

Marc

Hallo Jiimy

Der Service zum Verschieben von Punkten wurde korrigiert. Es werden nun nur noch die admincodes gesetzt, wenn sie nicht schon vorhanden waren. Ausserdem wird auch sichergestellt, dass die verschiedenen codes auf den verschiedenen levels konsistent sind. In Grenzgebieten war es vorher denkbar, dass der code von beispielsweise adm3 nicht zum adm2 gehörte, sondern zum Nachbar adm2.

Marc

Here it works. This link returns three result records:
http://ws.geonames.org/findNearbyPostalCodes?lat=47&lng=9

Hi Joeri

Thanks a lot. This is definitely an error and we have corrected it.

Best

Marc

We had networking problems with the servers runnig part of the commercial services, the website and the forum. For this reasons we had to immediately allocate some servers normally used for the free services to serve the commercial services, the website and the forum. As a result of this we had not enough resources to serve the free services for a couple of days till we managed to restore all servers. We are really sorry about this.

Marc

you don't need to sign up. only your users need to sign up. it is meant for applications as we wouldn't know how to track which user is coming from where and it would be exaggerated to think about this kind of affiliation scheme.

It maps to ADM2 records with the same adm2 value. The table is self referencing.

Crundy

The county information is in the adm2 column of the dump. For missing county links you are welcome to help add the information.

Best

Marc

todd

I assume it is query timeout exception. This service is rather resource intensive and in order to avoid very long running requests there is a query timeout after some seconds.
In case of a timeout you get the following json result:

ws_results({"status": {
"message": "QueryTimeoutException",
"value": 13
}});

Marc

PS: if you are using firefox I recommend firebug to debug javascript problems: http://getfirebug.com/

Hi jhonv

Text compare is a tricky business and not as easy as it may seem. Don't forget to look at the alternate names table, most provinces should have their short name without 'province' included as alternate name.

Best

Marc

Please see this thread:
http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/692.page

Marc

You can use the postal code search for postal code level geocoding:
http://www.geonames.org/export/web-services.html#postalCodeSearch

GeoNames does not offer street level geocoding.

Marc

Funny on our postgres db it is varchar(4000).

I assume SQL Server is counting the bytes and not the characters, with exotic characters needing two or more bytes. I will make a small note on the documentation.

Marc

We have fixed a bug in the timezone reverse geocoding, but not yet fixed the data in the dump.

marc