GeoNames Forum

There seems to be some odd behaviour in the (ok, undocumented) http://ws.geonames.org/findNearby
If no language is specified, the results are in English. If a language is specified the results are in that language, unless the language is not regognized, like lang=xx or lang=no (for Norwegian), in which case the results are shown in German. For example:
http://ws.geonames.org/findNearby?lat=47.30&lng=12.83&lang=no
returns

<countryName>Österreich</countryName>

.
My Norwegian users are complaining

Should I code around this or will it change?

Andreas

Hi Andreas

Thanks. The default locale on one of the servers was German. I have changed it to English.

Cheers

Marc

Hi.
Another strange thing with lang param:
: param lang is empty:
http://ws.geonames.org/countrySubdivision?lat=51.116555&lng=17.000824&style=full&lang=pl
: param lang is pl
http://ws.geonames.org/countrySubdivision?lat=51.116555&lng=17.000824&style=full&lang=
:no lang param
http://ws.geonames.org/countrySubdivision?lat=51.116555&lng=17.000824&style=full
look at adminName1 and countryName

The names are derived from the 'alternatenames' :
http://www.geonames.org/3337492/wojewodztwo-dolnoslaskie.html

Marc