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The timezone cannot be updated with the UI. I have run a script to fix a couple of missing timezones directly on the database. The ones you mention and a couple of more places now have a timezone.

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Marc

GeoNames is using the more liberal 'by' license in contrast to openstreetmap which is using the attribution-sharealike license. We would have to ask the copyright holder if we are allowed to redistribute the data with a more liberal 'by' license.

Cheers

Marc

Hi Graham

Do you think you would like to share your updates and improvements with us?

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Marc

Hi Graham

At the moment we use fips codes for first order administrative divisions for nearly all country. I think it might lead to confusion if we just switch isolated countries to iso codes instead of fips codes. For most of our users these codes for the UK don't seem to be that urgent. We try to use our users wishes to prioritize the work and have therefore assigned a low priority to this task.

As for the OS file. While it is a usefule resource it does not include lat/lng and we still need other sources to get the lat/lng from and combine it with the OS information.

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Marc

Thanks Graham. I have removed the quotes.

Marc

Hi

There is no other ascii file. All I can do is filter out the non ascii names and not include them in this file. This filter will be active as of tomorrow.

Cheers

Marc

Hi Gavin

The search results are diplayed in English. This means it is using the English name of a place if there is one name in the alternate names list with the iso language code 'en'.
for Wanaka there was one alternate name with the code 'en' and this name was Pembroke. I have now added an alternate name 'Wanaka' and set the 'isPreferred' flag. The search result is now using the name 'Wanaka' since it has the language code 'en' and the flag 'isPreferred'.

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Marc

This is correct.
The relationship between hotel and city is not yet included in the dump.

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Marc

Hi Carey

The format is languagecode-COUNTRYCODE.

It is following the xml recommandations and rfc3066 :

http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#sec-lang-tag
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3066.txt

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Marc

Carey Gister has helped fix some errors in the languages column of the countryInfo.txt file. As source for this fixes he used the CIA Factbook langauge data. The languages are ordered by the number of people who speak the language in this country.

The new language information is available as of todays dump.

Cheers

Marc

Try the 'featureCode' parameter, example : http://ws.geonames.org/findNearby?lat=37.421981&lng=-122.084013&featureCode=HTL&maxRows=10&radius=10

We have hardly any ATM information. For Switzerland I have a file somewhere for all Raiffeisenbank ATM, but it is not yet loaded into GeoNames. For other countries you could help us and ask the banks for ATM data.

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Marc

Yes this was a bug. Thanks. The service now returns Istanbul.

Cheers

Marc

We are using a full text search index and have indexed both strings '00999' and 00-999'.

Marc

Hi Martin

It is correct that you have to add some input to the 'q' parameter, The
country code will do fine. I believe the restriction that the 'q'
parameter is mandatory is obsolete and I will remove it.

The 'children' service returns the administrative divisions for a given
country code :
http://www.geonames.org/export/place-hierarchy.html#children
Is this what you are looking for?

Best Regards

Marc

How to add new places is described in the user manual :
http://www.geonames.org/manual.html#create

For Victoria we have to map the codes used in the official gazetteer to the featurecodes used by GeoNames. Afterwards we have to map the existing GeoNames toponyms with the toponyms in the VICNAMES gazetteer : http://services.land.vic.gov.au/vicnames/

The GeoNames featurecodes are here : http://www.geonames.org/export/codes.html

Here the featurecodes used in VICNAMES with the number of times they occur.

Code:

 count | featurecode 
 -------+-------------
     62 | AF
      2 | ANCH
     29 | BANK
      3 | BAPL
      2 | BAR
    192 | BAY
    193 | BCH
      2 | BCST
    239 | BEND
     34 | BGHT
   1024 | BLDG
      3 | BNDY
     12 | BORE
    644 | BRDG
      4 | BRKW
      2 | BTRY
     26 | CAPE
     53 | CAVE
     27 | CEM
    555 | CHAN
      3 | CHCH
      1 | CLAY
     73 | CLIF
     18 | CNAL
     37 | CNTY
      1 | COMM
      2 | COST
    150 | COVE
    152 | CPST
      9 | CRPK
      7 | CRRD
     35 | CUT
    246 | DAM
      1 | DEEP
      9 | DEPR
      7 | DOCK
     71 | DRN
      3 | DSRT
      5 | DUNE
     12 | ENTR
     22 | FARM
     12 | FLD
     48 | FORD
     28 | FRBK
      5 | FRNG
    120 | FRST
    826 | FSTA
     82 | FTRY
     10 | GATE
     43 | GORG
     77 | GRDN
      1 | GULF
     12 | HBR
   1526 | HILL
      1 | HLPT
    165 | HOSP
     49 | HWY
     10 | INTL
    222 | IS
      4 | ISTH
     41 | JUNC
     96 | LAGN
    553 | LAKE
     78 | LGA
     10 | LH
     12 | LNDG
   3210 | LOCB
      7 | LOCK
      3 | MALL
     47 | MILL
    238 | MINE
     47 | MONU
      7 | MRKT
      1 | MSSN
    923 | MT
     40 | NAVB
   1263 | NBHD
   1711 | PARK
    301 | PASS
    207 | PEAK
      4 | PEN
     48 | PIER
     14 | PIPE
     18 | PL
     38 | PLAN
    358 | PLN
     69 | PLNA
    439 | PO
      4 | POND
      7 | POOL
      1 | PORT
      1 | PROM
   2004 | PRSH
      8 | PRSN
    365 | PSTA
    518 | PT
     12 | QUAR
     34 | RCH
     91 | RDGE
     44 | REEF
    214 | RES
    319 | RESV
      1 | RH
     60 | RLY
    169 | RNGE
    239 | ROCK
    864 | RSTA
     36 | RTRK
      2 | RUIN
   2898 | SCHL
      1 | SEA
     45 | SHCE
     25 | SHOL
      3 | SHR
     41 | SITE
      6 | SLP
      2 | SND
      2 | SOAK
      3 | SPAN
      8 | SPIT
     35 | SPRG
    329 | SPUR
      3 | STDM
      9 | STR
   7387 | STRM
    510 | SWMP
     44 | TANK
     42 | TOWR
   1199 | TPEX
    371 | TRIG
    176 | TRK
     12 | TUNN
      1 | TVST
     21 | VAL
     14 | WELL
      4 | WOOD
      1 | WTR
    184 | WTRF
     29 | WTRH
      6 | YD
 (140 rows)

Hi Mark

Did you make sure it is all spelt correctly/consistently? (a column geonamei probably does not exist in your database schema)

Regards

Marc

Hi

You can use the featureClass A for countries and regions together with the featureClass P for populated places.

Regards

Marc

Thanks.

Marc

Hi Peter

PeterBengtson wrote:

My questions are: (1) will this be rectified for Sweden in particular, and (2) is this the case for other countries as well, in general?

We need the information to be able to add it to the places. As soon as we have got the information we will add it. You can help us find the required information, for example in the form of shape information.
This is the case for most countries.

PeterBengtson wrote:

Also, (3) in Germany and also in France, there are many instances of administrative subdivisions containing only one single geoname with the same name as the subdivision. Apart from requiring extra checks to compensate for it, is it correct and intended?

Toponyms that serve as both as administrative divison and populated places have received two entries to be able to identify them distinctly.

Regards

Marc

Hi

There is a reverse geocoding service to return all elements. The service is called 'findNearby' :
http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/581.page#2667

Regards

Marc