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				<title>Re:Wikipedia association with geonames id</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ how about mapping between gnis and geonames]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 3 Mar 2009 23:41:15]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>GNIS Record ID and Geonames ID</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Hi,
According to "About" page on geonames, you can get geonames id for a given usgs id. Rather than using calling the above service, is there a way to download geonames and usgs id mapping data. 

==== excerpts from the about page
U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System (names in US).
Use the url http://www.geonames.org/maps/gnis-fid= to view a gnis record with its id. Example the link http://www.geonames.org/maps/gnis-fid=1702495 will display the gnis record with fid=1702495 on a map. 
======

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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 3 Mar 2009 21:38:10]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ ragrawal]]></author>
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				<title>Is geonames webservice is currently broken</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ hi,

I have been testing geonames webservice and it seems the website is broken. For instance this links returns 404 not found error
http://ws.geonames.org/neighbourhood?lat=40.78343&lng=-73.96625

The above links is provided in Neighbourhood webservice description page. I tried other webservices and they are also failing. And If I go to http://ws.geonames.org/ the page is redirected to some other website. Just concerned whether the website has been hacked or what ?]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:22:09]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ ragrawal]]></author>
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				<title>Match USGS and Geonames record</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ hi,

I am trying to compare USGS domestic name dataset and Geonames dataset for US (+ dependent states). One thing that I am trying to do is to find records that are present in USGS, but not in geonames and vice-versa. However, I am not sure if there is any field that is common to both. 

Can I assume name in both geonames and usgs are same. Or can I use any other column. I thought of using lat/lon but the problem with that they are not unique and there can be multiple features having same lat/lon.

Please let me know if anyone has any idea on how to compare two datasets.

Regards]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:08:33]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ ragrawal]]></author>
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				<title>Re:usgs domestic names and geonames dataset</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ It doesn't make sense!!!. I just downloaded both USGS and GeoNames dataset and after loading all the files in a MySQL database I did a row count. From the row count, it seems USGS has more features than in Geonames datasets (for US only). Here are the numbers that I got

USGS has        2,046,491 rows
Geonames has 1,886,390 rows

Can someone verify these numbers and if they are right, can someone tell why geonames has smaller number of rows]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:02:01]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ ragrawal]]></author>
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				<title>Re:usgs domestic names and geonames dataset</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ So I can assume whatever is in USGS will also be available in geonames. Are there any more benefits in using geonames over usgs domestic names database.

Regards,
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 8 Jan 2009 22:37:11]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>usgs domestic names and geonames dataset</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ hi,

Can someone tell me the difference between usgs domestic name dataset and geonames datasets. I am working on a project that requires only US related information and is not concerned about any other part of the world. Hence, I am interested to know which dataset is much more extensive and bigger.

Regards,
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 8 Jan 2009 19:58:08]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ ragrawal]]></author>
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