GeoNames Forum

Hi David

I don't think it already exists. Sounds like a great idea releasing it as open source. Thanks for offering to release it.

You could also send an email to the GeoNames google groups mailing list to see whether there is interest in the code.

Cheers

Marc

Hi Paul

I don't know what could habe caused the error. Would you mind tring again and if the error occurs again give me the GeoNameId of the location you want to move?

Creating new locations is very simple. It is described in the user manual :
http://www.geonames.org/manual.html#create

Cheers

Marc

Hi Paul

I think you are right. Amusement Parks are quite important as Point of Interest and worthwhile to add to the GeoNames database.

Would you volunteer to enter a couple of them if I add a new feature code :
http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/130.page

Cheers

Marc

Hi Ben

We are not using a table 'admincodes' at all. The information is redundant to the geoname table and only included in the dump because users have been asking for it.
Why don't you just add a new column or update the existing column to fit your needs?

In the admincodes.txt file we have to include the country to make the entries unique and in the geoname table we don't want to keep the concatenation of countrycodes and admincodes to make it easier to modify them and work with them.

Cheers

Marc

Hi Brian

I was not aware of this, but it seems the rdf service only returns those alternate names with a language code. "EL GENEINA" has two alternate names without a language code and these don't show up in the rdf document.

Cheers

Marc

Hi Brian

The alternate names only show up for places where there is information available.

Example:
http://ws.geonames.org/search?q=zurich&maxRows=5&type=rdf

Cheers

Marc

Hi

The two tables are not (yet) linked for the US. The result you get for 'North Avon' are in fact the results for 'Avon'. The search term 'north' is also found in the continent name 'North America'. So you get all places in 'North America' with the name 'Avon'.

Cheers

Marc

Hi Kari

The idea is that we collaborate in finding and integrating data sets. That is also the way wikipedia works, by the way, a lot of information is generated and updated by robots who inject entires data sets into wikipedia.

Instead of adding a record or two you can reach out to data providers and ask them for data. With a couple of emails you will get tens of thousands of records.

Cheers

Marc

great. let me know when you have found some interesting data sets.

Marc

I am afraid we don't have postal codes for Brazil. Maybe at a later point.

Cheers

Marc

mysql :
http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/80.page

postgres:
http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/67.page

Hi Agritech

I have added the maxRows parameter to the XML service as well.

I don't know of any web service with historic data reverse geocoding.

Cheers

Marc

Hallo

Die Datei wird normalerweise in eine Datenbank geladen (postgres, mysql,...) und dann wird von PHP auf die Datenbank zugegriffen.

Cheers

Marc

It is a great idea. In fact I am just returning from a workshop for the DIGMAP project in Lisbon. Among other things adding dates to alternate names was a main topic of discussion.

Do you have a dataset we could start with and populate the dates?

Cheers

Marc

which firefox version are you running? Some unstable plugins?

Marc

Hi Martin

Thanks for offering your help. It would be great to have more accurate coordinates for India. You can send me the data in flat file format or post it to the forum.

Thanks a lot.

Regards

Marc

Hi Kari

Do you know a large dataset to start with when adding additional columns to the database schema? I don' want to make the database schema more difficult then required. So I only add new fields when we have some large source to populate it with.

I guess types of restaurants are not the topic of GeoNames. My vision for the future is that we have some feature identifiers and can link to other sources for more information. This means we could link to an open restaurant project for more specific information about a restaurant, reviews and so on.

Cheers

Marc

Thanks Rob, for sharing your experience.

Cheers

Marc

As stated in the documentation the reverse address geocoding for the US is using the dataset from the US census called TIGER (Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing system).

http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/index.html

Marc

Hallo Flocker

Wir haben im Moment nicht genug Resourcen auch noch Polygone anzubieten und zu supporten. Mit der Suchmaschiene deiner Wahl wirst du sicher rasch fündig.

Gruss

Marc