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FAQ - frequently asked questions -> How to improve query performance for geonames -> Go to message
Hi Erica

Do you have indices on the geoname table? In particular on latitude and longitude?

Marc
General -> String could not be parsed as XML -> Go to message
It could be a problem with the free server being overloaded some times. If it is overloaded it throws a timeout exception.

Regards

Marc
General -> Who can tell me the relationship between hotels and cities of geonames database? -> Go to message
There is no hotels db. The hotels are included in the normal GeoNames dump. they have the feature code HTL.
To get only the hotels you can load the entire dump and delete everything that has not the code HTL.

Chees


Marc
General -> timezone webservice down -> Go to message
Hi Ian

The service is alive. You might have experienced problems due to the high load on the free servers.
We have an other server available with less load in case it is critical for you and you are willing to help us share the cost for the server.

Cheers

Marc
General -> 70.000 hotel dump -> Go to message
You could download the full daily dump and delete everything that is not a hotel.

Marc
FAQ - frequently asked questions -> How to improve query performance for geonames -> Go to message
Hi Jun

I fear it will be difficult to help you if we don't know which query you want to execute and which indices you have created.
If you post the information someone might be able to help.

Cheers

Marc
General -> Timezone Winter Time -> Go to message
Hi Ian

Do you know where we can get the information from for the ocean timezones?

Marc
General -> how to get regions -> Go to message
Hi Patcito

The name of the state is in the file admin1Codes and it refers to the admin1code column in the allCountries table.

The rdf dump is not generated daily. You can send me an email for the latest dump.

Cheers

Marc
Administrative Divisions -> How to find only countries ? -> Go to message
Thanks Etco. I have recreated the country name files and the onces I have checked are all correct now. I don't know why these names have been corrupted.

Cheers

Marc
General -> Wikipedia XML and country -> Go to message
Hi Andreas

The country parameter for this service is refering to the postal code and not to the wikipedia article. If you ask for a postal code / country combination at the border of a neighbouring country then the service will return articles from both countries.

We plan to add the country information to the wikipedia articles with the next load. We will reverse geocode all articles in order to do so.

Cheers

Marc
Discussion of GeoNames Toponyms -> Moscow Russia -> Go to message
Hi Dmitry

'Moscow' is in the alternate names table. 'Moskow' (with k) is not in the database. Wich language is this?

Cheers

Marc
General -> Timezone Winter Time -> Go to message
Hi Ian

We have changed the time in Europe indeed, though, I don't think we should call this a change in timezone.

The tz database contains all information about the dates when each timezone changes from winter time to summer time : http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm

Our webservice only returns the timezone and not the time. If you are using java then it is quite simple to figure out the time for a given timezone and a given GMT.

If you think it would be useful we could offer an additional service to get the timezone for a given lat/lng or we could just add an additional output element to the exising service.

Cheers

Marc
General -> Alternatenames question -> Go to message
Sorry Alexey, If I knew where to get the information then I would have integrated it in GeoNames.

Marc
General -> Result Ranking from the web service -> Go to message
check out the apache lucene project or search for 'tf idf' (term frequency - inverse document frequency) with your favorite search engine. It is the same information retrieval technoloy all search engines are using.

Cheers

Marc
Administrative Divisions -> Russia -> Go to message
Thanks, Julian. I will change it.

Cheers

Marc
General -> Result Ranking from the web service -> Go to message
The ranking relevancy is based on population, feature code and where the search term occurs. In the name? If yes ,how many other places do we find with this term?

For fuzzy search you have to use the specific parameter. The normal search parameter does not have any fuzzy search functionality.

Cheers


Marc
Administrative Divisions -> How to find only countries ? -> Go to message
Hi Etco

May I ask what kind of errors you found?

Cheers

Marc
General -> Alternatenames question -> Go to message
Hi Alexey

This is correct. I am afraid we don't yet know the language for many alternate names.

Cheers

Marc
Postal Codes -> Postal Codes Bangladesh -> Go to message
Postal codes for Bangladesh have been added today to the GeoNames postal code data set. The postal codes have not yet been geocoded and are for the time being without lat/lng.

source : http://www.bangladeshpost.gov.bd/PostCode.asp

Marc
General -> Question about quality of data -> Go to message
Hi

The data is in UTF8 encoding. Make sure you configure your database with the same encoding when loading the dump files.

Cheers

Marc
 
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