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General -> Problem in daily dump? -> Go to message
Isa

The dump took incredibly long today. I don't know why. Let's hope this was a one time issue.

Marc
Forum in Deutsch -> Probleme mit dem Charset -> Go to message
Heureka! Ich habe den Fehler gefunden.
Sorry, dass es so lange gedauert hat.


Marc
General -> charset=ISO8859-15 funktioniert nicht mehr -> Go to message
Heureka! Ich habe den Fehler gefunden.
Sorry, dass es so lange gedauert hat.


Marc
General -> Missing Canadian City -> Go to message
David

We have only the first three letters the so called FSA for Canada. If you use the postal code search with the parameters 'country' and 'postalcode' the search service will return the correct result:
http://ws.geonames.org/postalCodeSearch?postalcode=H3Y1X9&maxRows=10&country=ca

It is for copy right reasons that we do not have access to the full Canadian postal codes, and it is also for copyright reason that we are not allowed to include Yahoo or other services into our free webservices.

Best

Marc
General -> "Special" Countries missing from geonames table -> Go to message
Giorgio

French Polynesia and the others ARE present in the database, but not all dependent countries have the PCLI feature code. See list below

Marc

Code:
 AN	Netherlands Antilles / Curaçao	NL	PCLIX	?	
 AQ	Antarctica	12 countries	ADM1	-	
 AS	American Samoa	US	ADMD	ADMD	
 AW	Aruba	NL	PCLIX	-	
 AX	Åland Islands	FI	ISLS	-	
 BL	Saint-Barthélemy	FR	PCLIX	-	Collectivité d'outre-mer
 BV	Bouvet Island	NO	PCLD	-	
 CK	Cook Islands	NZ	PCLS	ADMD	
 FK	Falklands Islands	GB	PCLD	-	
 FM	Federated States of Micronesia	US	PCLF	ADM1	
 FO	Faroe Islands	DK	ADM1	ADM2	
 GF	French Guiana	FR	PCLD	ADM1	département d'outre-mer (DOM)
 GG	Guernsey	GB	PCLD	ADM1	
 GI	Gibraltar	GB	PCLD	-	
 GL	Greenland	DK	PCLD	ADM2	
 GP	Guadeloupe	FR	PCLD	ADM1	département d'outre-mer (DOM)
 GU 	Guam	US	ISL	ADMD	
 HK	Hong Kong	CN	PCLS	ADMD	
 HM	Heard and McDonald Islands	AU	PCLD	-	
 IM	Isle Of Man	GB	PCLD	(ADM1)	
 IO	British Indian Ocean Territory	GB	PCLD	(ADM1)	
 JE	Jersey	GB	PCLD	ADM1	
 MF	Saint-Martin	FR/NL	PCLIX	ADM2	Collectivité d'outre-mer
 MH	Marshall Islands	US	PCLF	ADMD	
 MO	Macau	CN	PCLS	ADM1	
 MP	Northern Mariana Islands	US	ADMD	ADMD	
 MQ	Martinique	FR	PCLD	ADM1	département d'outre-mer (DOM)
 MS	Montserrat	GB	PCLD	ADM1	
 NU	Niue	NZ	PCLS	-	free association
 PF	French Polynesia	FR	PCLD	TERR / ADMD	Collectivité d'outre-mer
 PM	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	FR	PCLD	ADM1	Collectivité d'outre-mer
 PN	Pitcairn	GB	PCLD		British overseas territory
 PR	Puerto Rico	US	PCLD	ADMD	Associated Free State of Puerto Rico
 RE	Réunion	FR	PCLD	ADM1	département d'outre-mer (DOM)
 SH	Saint Helena	GB	PCLD	PCLD ?	British overseas territory
 SJ	Svalbard	NO	TERR	-	
 TC	Turks and Caicos	GB	PCLD	-	British overseas territory
 TF	French Southern Territories	FR	PCLIX	ADM1	
 TK	Tokelau	NZ	PCLD	-	
 UM	United States Minor Outlying Islands	US	ADMD	?	
 VG	Virgin Islands, British	GB	PCLD	-	British overseas territory
 VI	Virgin Islands of the United States	US	ADMD	?	
 WF	Wallis and Futuna	FR	PCLD	ADM2	Collectivité d'outre-mer
 YT	Mayotte	FR	PCLD	-	Collectivité d'outre-mer
General -> URL encoding? -> Go to message
Hi Cawb

You are right, this is garbage. I have removed it.
Thanks

I don't know the meaning of the (()) syntax. It is coming from the NGA.

Marc
Forum in Deutsch -> Alle Einträge von adminName3 -> Go to message
Hallo NN

Du kannst den Webdienst benutzen um ein xml Dokument zu erhalten:
http://ws.geonames.org/search?q=adm3&maxRows=10&country=de&style=full&featureCode=ADM3

(setzte maxRows=450)

Oder du kannst das DE.zip file runterladen mit einer csv Datei und dort alles rauschlöschen was du nicht möchtest.

Marc
General -> Benefits of allcountries table? -> Go to message
Hi Zwirdsch

The allcountries table has the 'international' names of a location. If you want to know the name in a particular language you have to join it with the alternate names table (using the geonameId). There you will find the local names of a place in many languages. It is a one-to-many relationship with the allcountries table as master and the alternatenames table as detail.

Best

Marc
General -> Metar Weather -> Go to message
Fabio Giacomini from Microsoft Italy has translated the Metar weather conditions into Italian:
http://ws.geonames.org/weatherIcaoJSON?ICAO=LIRA&lang=it


clouds.null = n/a
clouds.SKC = sereno
clouds.CLR = sereno
clouds.FEW = leggermente nuvoloso
clouds.SCT = parzialmente nuvoloso
clouds.BKN = nuvolosità irregolare
clouds.OVC = coperto
clouds.VV = n/a


condition.null=n/a
condition.DZ=pioggia fine
condition.RA=pioggia
condition.SN=neve
condition.SG=neve
condition.IC=ghiaccio
condition.PL=gragnola
condition.GR=grandine
condition.GS=grandine/neve
condition.UP=precipitazioni
condition.BR=precipitazioni
condition.FG=nebbia
condition.FU=foschia
condition.VA=n/a
condition.SA=n/a
condition.HZ=foschia
condition.PY=umidità densa
condition.DU=n/a
condition.SQ=raffiche
condition.SS=tempesta di sabbia
condition.DS=tempesta di sabbia
condition.PO=n/a
condition.FC=n/a
condition.+FC=tornado

condition.-=leggero
condition.+=forte
condition.VC=in prossimità:

condition.MI=nebbia sottile
condition.BC=localizzati
condition.SH=acquazzone
condition.PR=parziale
condition.TS=tempesta
condition.BL=raffiche
condition.DR=n/a
condition.FZ=gelate

General -> Language in http://ws.geonames.org/findNearby -> Go to message
The names are derived from the 'alternatenames' :
http://www.geonames.org/3337492/wojewodztwo-dolnoslaskie.html


Marc
Administrative Divisions -> admin2Codes.txt -> Go to message
sorry, you are right.

I was looking at the wrong column. The reason is that the ADM2 don't have any codes associated with them.
What we could do is assign them the geonameid as code if we don't know the real code.
The 'real' code is usually the code used by the statistical office of the country and generally in use (like the INSEE code in France)

Marc
Administrative Divisions -> admin2Codes.txt -> Go to message
David

The problem in this case is that it links to admin1code 37, which no longer exists.

Marc
Forum in Deutsch -> Allgemeine Frage zum Datenbestand -> Go to message
Hallo Nico

1. Das Gemeindeverzeichniss enthält nur Gemeinden was bei GeoNames nicht als PPL abgebildet wird. Es gibt in Deutschland mehr Orte als Gemeinden.
Ich habe einige der von Dir in Zweifel gezogenen Einträge auf Googlemaps angeschaut und dort wird jeweils an diesem Ort ein 'Burgstall' angezeigt.

Marc
Postal Codes -> Countries without postal codes -> Go to message
For user entry validation the postal code format pattern could also be useful. It is included in the countries.txt file in the sourceforge repository :
http://geonames.cvs.sourceforge.net/geonames/data/

Marc

PS: Samokk has merged the two country files:
http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/910.page
Administrative Divisions -> admin2Codes.txt -> Go to message
Hi David

It is hard to find uptodate data that is compatible with a free license. So we have to make do with the data we have and this is not fully consistent. Administrative divisions are particularly hard as they are a a moving target. So we decided to keep inconsistent data in order to not loose information. It would be very simple to set everything to 'null' to get a consistent state.

If they are changes in administrative divisions then we only know that the admin is obsolete, but for many users it is usefull information to know that a place once belonged to this or that admin division.

Marc
Administrative Divisions -> admin2Codes.txt -> Go to message
David

ADMD is a generic code for administrative divisions where we don't know the level or where it does not make sense to speak of a level.

In this case it is a historic administrative division that does no longer exist :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanover_%28region%29

It should be deleted, but as it is still referenced we have temporarily moved it to ADMD before we delete it completely.

Marc
Administrative Divisions -> admin2Codes.txt -> Go to message
David

It is dynamically generated. Where did you find the coresponding ADM2?

Marc
Forum in Deutsch -> Allgemeine Frage zum Datenbestand -> Go to message
Es gibt mehrere "Burstall" in Deutschland, übrigens auch auf Googlemaps.

Marc
Administrative Divisions -> Missing a lot of administrative links for Switzerland -> Go to message
Hi Ugo

I have just run a reverse geocoder job to assign missing admin1 code where possible. If you still see some missing data you could add it manually.

Best

Marc
Administrative Divisions -> Continents -> Countries -> Regions -> Cities -> Go to message
Hi Olivier

We know which toponyms are having blank admincodes. What we need to know is the information to fix the blanks. The first step is to fix the blank admincodes for the administrativ divisions.
In order to help us you could find out which code to use for each admin division (in Albania for instance). Information like this is often available from the national statistical office.

Best

Marc
 
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