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General -> NGA GEOnet Names ID's in GeoNames? -> Go to message
Weird.
The file with the nga ufis is here:
http://download.geonames.org/nga-ids.zip

Marc
General -> Timezone webservice doesn't return timezone id for Maldives coords -> Go to message
Fixed.


Marc
General -> Elevation - Multiple Requests -> Go to message
Hi Jeremy

An array of coordinates is only available for the commercial service.

Best

Marc
FAQ - frequently asked questions -> Permission denied to call method XMLHttpRequest.open -> Go to message
GDownloadURL is using XmlHttpRequest behind the scenes and subject to the same restrictions.

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/reference.html#GDownloadUrl

You will have to use a JSON call to read data from the GeoNames server directly with the browser.

Marc
General -> More street segment data in webservice ping -> Go to message
Use the maxRows parameter.

Marc
General -> Mistakes in countryinfo.txt -> Go to message
Hi Andreas

Thanks a lot, will be fixed with the next dump.

Best

Marc
Discussion of GeoNames Toponyms -> Use of Rome vs Mockba -> Go to message
The main name should be an internationally known name. I have corrected the name for "Moscow". Anyhow, it is recommended to use the alternate name table and get the name in the language you want and not rely on which language the main name is in.

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Marc
General -> Adding neighborhood to Geonames -> Go to message
Hi Jay

The duplication check on insertion should help us avoid duplicates in the database. Sometimes people enter new records without first making sure that the record does not already exist.
The wiki implementation is not perfect, it would be nice to give a warning and let the user add the toponym despite the warning.
The check currently only exists on insertion and not on update. As a workaround you can enter the record with a different name to avoid the duplication check exception and immediately afterwards you change the name to the correct name.

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Marc
General -> Wikipedia <-> geonameid mapping -> Go to message
We have written our own parser.

Marc
General -> Wikipedia <-> geonameid mapping -> Go to message
The newest dump is available from the thread above http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/126.page#4452

Marc
General -> Wikipedia association with geonames id -> Go to message
The newest dump is available here:
http://www.geonames.org/export/wikipedia/wikipedia-200803.zip


Marc
General -> Time Zone DST and GMT -> Go to message
Hi Gabriel

"rawOffset" and local current "time" are now also available in JSON.

Marc
General -> Feature codes in Swedish -> Go to message
The guys from citocraft have translated the feature codes into Swedish.

Example :
http://ws.geonames.org/search?q=stockholm&maxRows=10&lang=sv&style=LONG

The translated feature codes are here : http://www.geonames.org/docs/swedish-featurecodes.xls

Marc
General -> invalid U.S. zip codes -> Go to message
Hi David

I am afraid I cannot find them in our data base. Where did you see them?

Marc
General -> Reverse geocoding for Europe -> Go to message
Sean

Yes, GeoNames is offering free street level reverse geocoding for the US: http://www.geonames.org/maps/reverse-geocoder.html

For The Netherlands we could do it with TeleAtlas data. As explained above this would need a license from the data provider.

Marc
General -> Reverse geocoding for Canada? -> Go to message
GeoNames has a lot of reverse geocoding web services for the whole world including Canada.

What is missing so far is street level (address, intersection, ...) reverse geocoding. Mainly for lack of data. The so called "National Road Network" data is freely available from GeoBase.ca: http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/data/nrn/description.html
Would a reverse geocoding based on the "National Road Network" dataset cover your needs?

Marc
General -> Problem with italian City -> Go to message
Thanks, I have corrected this error.

Marc
General -> I can't find Bangalore -> Go to message
Hi

I have fixed it. It is nothing you are doing wrong. Someone changed the feature code from Bangalore and someone else corrected this, but the web service is running on another server than the edit interface and it got out of sync and did not receive the correction. I have now manually syncronized the servers.
We am acutally considering to stop updates for India as the contributions for India are of rather low quality. I have no idea why, but they don't care about the feature codes and put any code for anything, which breaks most services and logic.

Best

Marc
FAQ - frequently asked questions -> Alternative names for Countries ... -> Go to message
Giovanni

With "GeoNames Table" I refer to the allCountries.zip file or one of the country files. If you are only after the name of countries you can use the countryInfo.txt file which contains geoNameIds for the countries and get the names from the alternate names table.
The cityxxx files are only cities and no countries.

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Marc
General -> Alternate names for Airports -> Go to message
Hi John

Please feel free to add missing alternate names with the wiki- edit interface: http://www.geonames.org/manual.html

Best

Marc
 
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