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In the countryInfo file in the download section we include a list of languages spoken in the country ordered by number of speakers :
http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/countryInfo.txt

We would like to do the same on the administrative divison level and have therefore started with a spreadsheet. The adm1Lang spreadsheet has the columns : CountryCode, ISO 3166-2 code, FIPS code, Name of the Administrative Division and the list of languages spoken in the country :
http://www.editgrid.com/user/geonames/adm1Lang

An example is Quebec where 80% of the population speak French, compared to the Canada as a whole where only 22% speak French and 68% speak English.

Do you know about administrative divisions where an other language is spoken by the majority of people than the main language of the country? Don't hesitate to add the information to the spreadsheet. The information for FIPS or ISO code can be found on our country page : http://www.geonames.org/CA/administrative-division-canada.html

Marc

I forgot to answer this posting, sorry.

It has legacy reasons. The exporter regenerates the file every night. If I have time I will fix this, though it is not on top of the priority list.

Cheers

Marc

Hi Sami

The file 'Admin1Codes' is just a list of the fips10-4 codes, whereas 'Admin1CodesASCII' at the other hand is populated from the geonames database.
The idea is to have only one file generated from the geonames database. As you see yourself there is still some work to do and improve the data in the geonames database to be able to drop the fips file and use only the pure geonames file.

Codes for adm1 cannot be changed on the UI, it has to be done directly on the database. The UI dropdownlist is generated from the database and it is a bootstraping problem to set the database to the correct value. Afterwards for places within this adm1 the dropdown list can be used.

You can send me a file or post problems you find here in the forum and I will update the database. Thanks a lot.

Cheers

Marc

Would you mind to elaborate on the problem? I have the impression it is working correctly I get the same Cardiff with or without fuzzy search.

Marc

Hi Sami

I have fixed it. Thanks.
These kind of problems are easy to fix with the edit interface. Click on 'edit' and then on the admin division you want to fix. Country, Adm1 and adm2 are editable via the edit interface.

Cheers

Marc

Hi Sami

I have included a link to this thread in the CountryInfo.txt file.

Thanks a lot.

Cheers

Marc

Hallo Torsten

Ja gibt es hier :
http://download.geonames.org/geonames-ufi.tab.gz

Gruss

Marc

Hi Bernd

There is a price list here :
http://www.geonames.org/professional-webservices.html

Cheers

Marc

Hi Isa

The new column will be included starting with the dump from 23 May. This is usually between 1 and 2 in the morning Central European Summer Time ( UTC/GMT +2 hours).

Cheers

Marc

Hi Ehud

I don't think there is a hard and fast rule. Somethimes islands can contain populated places, sometimes administrative divisions and sometimes also regions or areas. I cannot exclude that the name of a lake or river may stand for populated area.

Cheers

Marc

Hi Fabrizio

You are hard to please. Here you go :
http://ws.geonames.org/hierarchyJSON?geonameId=6535960
http://ws.geonames.org/childrenJSON?geonameId=3175395

Cheers

Marc

Denmark has the following administrative divisions :

ADM1 : Regions (5)
ADM2 : Municipalities (98 )

Denmark has been reorganized in January 2007. 271 municipalities were replaced by 98 larger municipalities, the 13 counties with 5 regions.

Thanks to Erik Bolstad.

Graham

At them moment I don't see a good solution with our web service. What you can do is download the dump and run it on your own server.

Marc

Hi

There is indeed a restriction to protect our servers from being overloaded. With 50 rows per page this means 1000 pages and I don't think any human is going trough all these pages. Google for instance does not serve more than 1000 rows (100 pages).

We are running an additional server without these restrictions for users who help us share the cost for the servers. We can move you to the other server if you are interested.

Cheers

Marc

Hi Fabrizio

There is a service called hierarchy that returns all ancestors of a geonameId. Here the hierarchy for Segesta :
Europe > Italian Republic > Regione Autonoma Siciliana > Provincia di Trapani > Calatafimi-Segesta
http://ws.geonames.org/hierarchy?geonameId=6535960

And one called children to return the ADMs within another ADM. Here the regions of Italy :
http://ws.geonames.org/children?geonameId=3175395

Cheers

Marc

Hi Graham

I think you need the search service :
http://www.geonames.org/export/geonames-search.html

The findNearbyPostalCodes is a reverse geocoding service and mainly used if you have GPS coordinates and want to know which city is at this GPS coordinates.

Cheers

Marc

I try to run most updates through the normal modification chain to add a history and include it in the daily modification dump. Sometimes however the database is directly updated without including the modification in the history and the daily modification dump.
I can start a forum thread with these updates, so you can repeat it on your geonames copy.

Cheers

Marc

Hi Randy

Thanks for the link. It is certainly interesting information, tough not trivial to implement. It would need some effort to properly implement a web service with this data set.
Anyone else interested in this service?

Marc

Thanks for the update, Fonant.

Marc

Hi Randy

I have added 'Oregon' as preferred name to the alternate names for Oregon. In case you find more errors please feel free to correct them directly on the edit interface.

Cheers

Marc