GeoNames Forum

Hi,

I'm stumped as to how I can accomplish the following.

Using the general "http://ws.geonames.org/searchJSON", I need to run a standard query, returning only results that match the adminCode1 value of "WI" or "MN".

So far, I can get results for one state at a time, but not both. I tried setting the operator parameter to "OR", however, this returns oodles of results that don't pertain to the original query.

Therefore, a query for "Rice" with the country parameter set to "US" should return only results from Wisconsin and Minnesota.

Any advice?

Thanks in advance,
Peter

There is no way to get "MN or WI" in a single query.

You may perform a full US query then filter the results to keep only MN and WI :
http://ws.geonames.org/searchJSON?country=US&q=Rice&fcode=PPL

or perform 2 queries then merge results :
http://ws.geonames.org/searchJSON?country=US&q=Rice&fcode=PPL&adminCode1=WI
http://ws.geonames.org/searchJSON?country=US&q=Rice&fcode=PPL&adminCode1=MN

I will put it in the 'nice-to-have' folder, maybe we have someday time to implement it.

Best

Marc

That'd be great! It's not a huge deal doing some of the filtration on my end, but it'd definitely be convenient to have implemented on the server-side.

Thanks again,
Peter