GeoNames Forum

Arlene

The wikipedia search is searching over geocoded wikipedia articles and it can only find articles that are geocoded.

The title parameter searches for articles with the search term in the title. Myanmar does not seem to be in the title of any article. But you find it with the q parameter:
http://ws.geonames.org/wikipediaSearch?q=myanmar

Whether 'Myanmar' is the 'official' name is controversial. The name is not recognized by many countries as it was imposed by the military junta.

Marc

Hi Martin

Thanks a lot for your offer to help. The data for seats of first (or
lower order) administrative divisions does not yet exist, and I don't
know of a good and free source. A lot of countries already have PPLA,
some of them like the UK and France have PPLA2 (seats of ADM2) flagged
with tags.
Example :
http://www.geonames.org/search.html?q=ppla&country=GB
http://www.geonames.org/search.html?q=ppla2&country=GB
http://www.geonames.org/search.html?q=ppla2&country=FR
The reason for the tagging is that is allows for multiple
classifications. Cities often serve as seats of more than one
administrative level (PPLA or PPLC) and the feature classification only
allows for one code (the top level code).

Please go ahead with Canada and other countries in order of your
priorities. It is very much appreciated.

Best Regards

Marc

google groups thread for same issue :
http://groups.google.com/group/geonames/browse_thread/thread/3df96305e1d54e22?hl=en

The rdf search server had some problems with synchronization to the main server.

Marc

Hi Gunter

If you are from the region, then please delete or help us delete not existant records.

Marc

Hi Kimmo

The file is static and contains the mapping of the latest NGA import. The NGA release a dataset once per month and we import it every couple of months.

Cheers

Marc

Thanks a lot. I have corrected the country code to Afghanistan.

Marc

Hi Matt

The problem, unfortunately, is anything else than trivial and I fear there is no easy and global solution.

For the US the street level data from the US Census might give better results :
http://ws.geonames.org/findNearestAddress?lat=40.7173387333125&lng=-73.9941215515137

Or probably better even the nearby postal codes :
http://ws.geonames.org/findNearbyPostalCodes?lat=40.7173387333125&lng=-73.9941215515137
The postal code solution also has the advantage that it works for many countries (ca 50).

Marc

Daniel

1. I have "Bath and North East Somerset" as adm2 for Bath :http://ws.geonames.org/hierarchy?geonameId=2656173&style=full
2. There are two files for adm1 names. The admin1Codes.txt file contains obsolete records, as some users have asked for it.
3. The main name is not yet translated, only its admin name and country name are translated according to the language codes passed with the 'lang' parameter : http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/881.page

Best

Marc

Giorgio

You are absolutely right, for a lot of feature codes like neighbourhoods or points of interests it would be nice to return the city as well. At the moment we are lacking the data to provide this kind of service.

Cheers

Marc

Steven

At the moment we don't have this combined service. It is possible that we will implement it at a later point in time.

Cheers

Marc

Hi Kimmo

A file with the geonameid and nga-id mapping is here :
http://download.geonames.org/nga-ids.zip

Marc

saardaniel wrote:

I want found the Adm1 for any given Koordiantes of the word.

This is the countrySubdiv service :
http://www.geonames.org/export/web-services.html#countrysubdiv

Marc

I don't know when we will have time to implement this feature (and make sure it has some acceptable performance)

Yes, you can query for the name of administrative divisisions and countries in all languages and it will return it (if included in the database, if not you can add it with the user interface, it will then be included with the next release.)

Marc

Sure you can do this, tough you will have to see whether the performance is acceptable for your application.

GeoNames is not using the database for this kind of queries. GeoNames is using a full text search index because it is faster and more flexible.

Marc

Steven

I have added a buffer zone to the service. It should now cover points near the coast.

Marc

Ryan

These points are all close to the coast and are outside of the polygons we are using. I have added a bufferzone around the polygons to also find points near the coast lines.

Marc

CellarDoor wrote:

So, I can completely remove old record and create new one based on data in modifications file data, right?

Yes

It is the same structure as the main dump.

Marc

Hi Rio

Sure this would be an option. Normally we have the international name as the main name. You could argue that "Luzern" is also a recognized international name.

Marc

Hi Rio

I am afraid this is not yet possible.

Marc