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				<title>Re:getting parent location</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ The heirarchy web service is cool!  Are you dynamically determining the parentage with each query, or have you precomputed them for each location?  If its the latter case, is the master list of the heirarchy for each location available for download?  I guess I could obtain it by repeatedly querying the webservice, but a directly download seems friendlier :)

Also, how difficult would it be to add additional "administrative region" layers?  For instance, for locations within the US it would be useful for me to know the City/County.  Sort of along those lines, it seems like this information could be obtained from vector boundary info for administrative regions.  I've been looking around for such info but haven't been found it.  Has anyone else come across it?

Thanks,
Aaron]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:52:32]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:Local versus international/english name of places</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ I'm a bit confused as to the difference between the data in alternateNames.zip and the comma separated names in the alternate names field of allCountries.zip.  What is the difference between the two?

It seems the use of an alternateNames table with a fkey to allCountries would be a good way of handling multiple synonyms for a place name.

Thanks,
Aaron]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 25 May 2006 21:25:31]]> GMT</pubDate>
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