GeoNames Forum

Hi Marc,

We’ve been using your free soap based service for a couple of years and we would like to switch over to your high availability soap based pay services.

Is there any documentation as to what code changes I would have to make in order to use the pay services?

Hi

The web services are exactly the same. The main difference is that they are running on other and better servers, that are closely monitored. What it needs is an additional parameter username={your geonames useraccount} to authenticate the request and the domain name for the request is different.

Best

Marc

How do I get a geonames useraccount?

There is a link called 'login' at many places of the site (for instance the front page) :
http://www.geonames.org/servlet/geonames?srv=10

Marc

Hi Marc,

I've been authorized to purchase the 5.000.000 credit service that you offer for your commercial, high availability servers. Payment will be made through paypal but before I make payment, I have a few questions.

1) Once I make payment, how does the user account get activitated for access to your commercial servers?

2) Will you be assigning a token or is a token required?

3) How to we get the URL's to the commercial server and the failover server?

4) Is there anything else I need to know?

As soon as I hear back from you I'll make payment.

Thanks,

David

Hi David

1. I will update the database with a row in a table with the details and send you and email when it is ready.

2. You can set a token with the webinterface on your account page. You can also specify a list of allowed ip addressed. Or if you use javascript a referrer domain or a daily credit limit per ip address. All this is optional.

3. we send it by mail, the failover is also stated on the account page (for the 99.9% plan)

4. This should be everything.

Marc

Hi Marc,

A payment of 500 euros was just sent to you. I sent an email to you at 'marc@geonames.org'.

David

Thanks a lot, David.

The account details are on the way.

Best

Marc