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Hi Isa
No problem I can add it to the dump. I was just waiting for someone to ask for it. I try to keep geonames and the download section as simple as possible and only add new stuff if users are asking for it.
How should the format of the tag dump look like? Are two columns : geonameId and tag fine with you?
Cheers
Marc
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Hi Julian
Indeed there was a problem with a handful of records in Grisons, Switzerland. I have corrected them. ('9' > 'GR').
Note that Switzerland (and the US) was already switched to ISO instead of FIPS. The aim is to move as many countries as possible to ISO as it is more known in the rest of the world. It is a lot of work and will take some time.
Cheers
Marc
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Hi Rich
The FIPS names are in the file admin1Codes.txt, they are not yet integrated in the geonames database.
My idea with the isShortName flag is to populate it with the Fips codes. There are several ways you could help. One is should we add the flat isShortName to the edit interface so that you and other users can edit it on the frontend with their browsers. An other option would be that I generate a spreadsheet file before loading it into the database and you look at it with a spreadsheet application (excel).
A question we also have to discuss is : Do we need to know for which long Name the short Name stands for or is the flag isShortName sufficient? Do we also need the flag 'isPreferredName' together with the flag 'isShortName'?
Cheers
Marc
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Hi Diego
The ADM1s for Andorra with adminCode1 '01' have been wrong. I have corrected it.
As for ADM2, I don't know Andorra well enough to be able to say how it should be.
Cheers
Marc
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Hi Isa
The tags are used to flag a place name. In contrast to the feature codes and feature classes which are one-dimensional (a place name can only have one feature code) several tags can be used for each place name.
It is an additional categorization mechanism where the simple classification with feature codes is not sufficient.
I have tagged a place with the tag 'skiresort'. You can search for tags with the search :
http://www.geonames.org/search.html?q=skiresort
If you only want to search for a tag and not for other occurences of the term (in case you tag something with 'spain' for example), then you add the attribute 'tags:' to the search term :
http://www.geonames.org/search.html?q=tags%3Askiresort
And if you want to search for tags of a particular user (or your own) then you append '@username' to the tag. Like this :
http://www.geonames.org/search.html?q=tags%3Askiresort%40marc
This tagging stuff is not yet well documented and not yet exported in the dump.
Marc
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Hi Rich
The admin1Codes files are convenience files. The same and more information is available in the alternatenames file. It is difficult for us to know what users want to be in this convenience file. What do other users think? Maybe we have to ask the question on the geonames mailing list.
The second and main problem you are referring to is the 'short name' problem. We have recently started to flag names with isPreferredName (used to be called isOfficialName but we change it to isPreferredName). There is no flag isShortName as of today. Would you like to help us go through the list and flag names as short names?
Geonames is aggregating information from various sources. This is the change you have noticed in the file admin1CodesASCII. The short name was from the FIPS names and the long name by the normal geonames database.
Regards
Marc
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This thread is continued in the geonames mailing list : http://groups.google.com/group/geonames/browse_thread/thread/e44211cbfa819443
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Thanks Julian. I have updated the simple fips changes with your table.
Cheers
Marc
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Hi Eric
At the moment there is no way to get the place names with accents from the postal code web service.
We are working on improving this. Would you like to help us with this?
Cheers
Marc
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Xarion
Here the relevant part of the documentation :
The DEM is provided as 16-bit signed integer data in a simple binary raster. There are no header or trailer bytes imbedded in the image. The data are stored in row major order (all the data for row 1, followed by all the data for row 2, etc.).
It means to know the elevation at a given lat/lng you have to find the right file, get the right to bytes and convert the two bytes to an integer.
Hope this helps
Cheers
Marc
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Hi Anders
The search including fuzzy search is using Lucene : http://lucene.apache.org/
Cheers
Marc
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Hi Diego
It sounds reasonable what you plan to do. The adminCode1 field is in fact the subdivision1 and tells you in which subdivision1 a subdivision2 is.
Cheers
Marc
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Hallo
Welches ist das richtige München für dich? Die Hauptstadt von Bayern hat PPLA und nicht PPL und in der Spalte Name steht der internationale Name 'Munich'. 'München' steht in der Spalte oder auch der Tabelle alternatenames.
Marc
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Hi Kenny
The guys from Geowalk have implemented a reverse geocode lookup :
http://www.geowalk.de/
Double click on the map to open the info window.
Hope this helps
Marc
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Xarion
You can download the gtop30 data from the USGS web site : http://edc.usgs.gov/products/elevation/gtopo30/README.html
and the SRTM3 from NASA : http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/
Cheers
Marc
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Hi Francesco
I will certainly import your data in the main zip code file. It looks very good. What can I give as source of the data? Do you have a website or shall I just add your name to the sources?
Cheers
Marc
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I fear there are some licence problems with the redistribution of the Mexican Postal codes.
The postal codes for Mexico are from the "Servicio Postal Mexicano" (sepomex) and they write :
no estando permitida su comercialización, total o parcial, ni su distribución a terceros bajo ningún concepto.
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Hi Francesco
Great you can send it to my email address marc@geonames.org or simply add it as a attachment to the forum posting. Is it with the new codes of September 2006?
Cheers
Marc
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Hi Julian
The empty codes '' mean we don't have information about the admin code. The problem is somehow related to this posting about superseded admin codes :
http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/398.page
As as quick fix I could implement a check in the dump procedure to set all not-existant admin codes to the empty code ''. This obviously is not a real fix but rather a workaround. The only thing we can do to try to fix it is use admin boundaries where they are available to determine the admin code.
Marc
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Hi Alan
You are absolutely right. They should get the new admin code. What we can do is use boundary shape to determine the new code, but this will only work for countries where we have the new admin1 boundaries.
Cheers
Marc
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