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Hello,
I'm experiencing a strange problem when inserting this new data:

http://www.geonames.org/6697945/forte-di-exilles.html

The Fort is in Italy, in Exilles and I just clicked beside the other mark, but something strange happens, and the new point is marked as being in France...

Could someone check what the problem could be?

Thanks

Stefano

Hi Stefano

We are using freely available country border polyons to automatically determine the country and administrative division of new places. These polygons are simplified and in border region they sometimes return the wrong result.
I have manually fixed it. (click on 'edit' then on the country name)

Best

Marc

talpaz wrote:

Hello,
I'm experiencing a strange problem when inserting this new data:
http://www.geonames.org/6697945/forte-di-exilles.html
The Fort is in Italy, in Exilles and I just clicked beside the other mark, but something strange happens, and the new point is marked as being in France...
Stefano

I've got the same I put in 2 markers 6930130 and 6930131 Amusemantpark Wunderland in Kalkar Nordrhein Westfalen Germany, but they are marked as being in the Netherlands.

Please feel free to correct errors. The automatic country detection is just a default value that you can easily change.

Marc

marc wrote:

Please feel free to correct errors. The automatic country detection is just a default value that you can easily change.

Marc

I would have done that, but it was not a fielf i could fill in. But i see that someone has done it already, because it is in Germany now.

Thanks.