GeoNames Forum

To be honest this option is not extremally critical for me at the moment, but I just was thinking that it may cover almost all possible needs.

What if it to add an ability exactly specify fields instead of using predefined style. Hmmm =) it's sounds like something close to SQL.

That's very flexible way and it's very good from legacy point of view because it covers any future changes.

It looks like seach and searchJSON return little bit different data.

For example searhJSON doesn't include information about time zone and elevation, but gives more detailed information about alternateNames (name + language).

Hi Marc,

Thank you for the quick replay.

Actually I was playing with search web services and didn't get that data with style=long. Now I realized that it's possible to get everything with style=full. Thanks!

One more note about time zones.
It could be useful to have DST transition dates rules in database as well.
I think we could help with it.

In our database we keep it in Microsoft style and it's ok for almost all time zones. But some countries use special rules to define DST transition dates so it's possible to define the rule for one year only (surely it's possible to keep history as well).

It should be great to have Altitude in city info.

I know that it's possible to get altitude by location using another request, but it will be nice to avoid muching up =)

Time zone is also an extremely useful info.

Hi Marc,

During last years our company (spbsoftwarehouse.com) released several products using geo data. We collected and developed our own database from many different web sources and we still continue to work on it.

You will not believe but during last few months we were discussing with colleagues that it's great to create a site providing geo data for free and involve users in a "wiki" style to help filling this db. So I was very happy when found this site. Great job. Thank you!

We'll be happy to help geonames.

There are many different ideas in my mind at the moment but the simplest thing we could do is to invite our users to help with localization.

Probably we could also integrate special module into our Spb Traveler that let mobile users to help with error correction and db extension.

What options you have for data adding and editing?