GeoNames Forum

Thanks. The capital name for the language 'nl' is wrong. I will fix it.

The children service is internationalized. See the Spanish version of the service, as an example :
http://ws.geonames.org/children?geonameId=2750405&lang=es

It depends on the alternate names we have available for each language. You can help us improve this with the wiki edit interface. Example (click on the link 'alternate names') :
http://www.geonames.org/2749990/provincie-noord-brabant.html

The names for admin divisions are cached in a property file. Changes will not be visible in the web services immediately.

Cheers

Marc

Hi David

There is feature code 'Athletic field' : a tract of land used for playing team sports, and athletic track and field events.

This page has a short definition for all feature codes :
http://www.geonames.org/export/codes.html#S.ATH

I don't know much about cricket. Does the feature code description someow cover the idea of a 'cricket ground' ?

Cheers

Marc

Hi KiwiGeek

Great. Would be a fantastic contribution. Does your data set base on the newest postal codes?
You can send a file (csv, excel, ...) to my email address or you can attach it to the posting on the forum.

Thanks a lot.

Marc

Yes they are old. See this thread :
http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/10.page#2532

Marc

The problem is that this location resolves to the ocean. To determine the timezone we first check which country the lat/lng is in to find the correct timezone for the country.
In this case we don't find a country and cannot proceed with determining the timezone.

Cheers

Marc

Hi Julian

The ONS codes are also available in the Ordnance Survey Administriative Geography :
http://geonames.wordpress.com/2007/04/11/ordnance-survey-administrative-divisons/

We have assigned the admin codes where ever possible. Here an example with the admin code '17UJ' :
http://www.geonames.org/2641373/north-east-derbyshire.html

Unfortunately many districts are still missing in GeoNames or have not yet been assigned with their codes. Here the list of the districts we have in our database :
http://www.geonames.org/search.html?q=adm2&country=GB

Even when we add the districts, the information to which district a place belongs to will still be missig for most locations.

Regards

Marc

Hi Stan

Sorry for the interruption. There was something amiss with a configuration file on one of the servers.

Cheers

Marc

Hi Andreas

Thanks. The default locale on one of the servers was German. I have changed it to English.

Cheers

Marc

Hallo Jens

Da hast Du völlig recht, da stimmt was nicht. Ich habe den Code von einem Contributor erhalten und ungetetest ins cvs gestellt :
http://geonames.cvs.sourceforge.net/geonames/geonames/java/src/org/geonames/utils/Bearing.java?sortdir=down&view=log

Wenn Du möchtest kannst du dir den Code ansehen und den Fehler korrigieren. Ich habe im Moment keine Zeit dazu. Ich habe dem Contributor auch ein Email geschickt und hoffe er hat Zeit dafür und werde die Funktion im Webservice wieder rausnehmen.

Das ist eines der Probleme mit Open source. Erstens kommen kaum Beiträge und wenn welche kommen, muss man sich um das Testing, Dokumentation und alles kümmern. Unter dem Strich hat man mehr Arbeit Ich zögere deshalb auch mehr code von GeoNames ins sourceforge csv zu stellen.

Gruss

Marc

Thanks.

I have changed the fips codes for the admin division polygons 01,04,17 to 28 and 11,13 to 27.

Cheers

Marc

I would tend to museum since it has an educational function like a museum. For an unpopulated village there is also the feature code 'abandoned populated place' :
http://www.geonames.org/export/codes.html#P.PPLQ

Cheers

Marc

Hi Stuart

The problem is that we don't have this information. In particular European countries don't make this information freely available. They are selling for often expensive prices with restrictive licenses.
We would love to provide the information, but as long as European countries don't understand that it would be better for their economies to freely release geographical data it will be difficult to get into more details.

Cheers

Marc

sorry, da hatte sich in einer konfigurationsdatei etwas zerschossen. Läuft jetzt wieder.

Gruss

Marc

The offset you observe is due to a rounding to 30'' in a data set we are using for many country where we could not found more accurate information.
The google maps display is certainly more accurate than the rounded data.

Cheers

Marc

There is a link to a howto in this thread :
http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/146.page

Marc

Thanks for letting me know. I have restarted the application server and the problem disapeared. I guess it has to do with the application server having run out of memory.

Cheers

Marc

Hallo

Es gibt tatsächlich zwei Berlin in Deutschland :
http://www.geonames.org/2950158/berlin.html

Die Nummern sind fortlaufend, da wir beim initial load die Einträge alphabetisch sortiert haben.

Stolpe-Süd habe ich korrigiert und dem Land Brandenburg zugeordnet. Die Grenze verläuft haarscharf daneben, was vielleicht der Grund für den Fehler war.

Gruss

Marc

Hi Andreas

Do you think the search service should find them with UK and GB in addition to their own country codes?

Cheers

Marc

fixed. I think it was a version incompatibility of some functions. Any how it works now.

Marc

Hi Samuel

We have quite a few reverse geocoding services :
http://www.geonames.org/export/reverse-geocoding.html

For lack of data for other countries the street level reverse geocoding only works for the US.

Cheers

Marc