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				<title>postal codes dump demand</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Hi Marc,

I would appreciate the full postal code dump for our project. My email address is fred.bobelweb@gmail.com

Thank you !

Cheers, 

Fred]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:29:28]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ fred.wolf]]></author>
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				<title>Differences between the dump database and postalCodeSearchJSON results</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Hi Mark,

maybe this question has been asked to you hundred times, but I couldn't find any answers in the forum topics.

I made the following request :

[url]
http://ws.geonames.org/postalCodeSearch?maxRows=10&country=FR&postalcode=57590&placename=Delme
[/url]

and the result is :

<span class="genmed"><b>Code:</b></span><br>
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&lt;geonames&gt;
&lt;totalResultsCount&gt;1&lt;/totalResultsCount&gt;
−
&lt;code&gt;
&lt;postalcode&gt;57590&lt;/postalcode&gt;
&lt;name&gt;Delme&lt;/name&gt;
&lt;countryCode&gt;FR&lt;/countryCode&gt;
&lt;lat&gt;48.8833333&lt;/lat&gt;
&lt;lng&gt;6.4&lt;/lng&gt;
&lt;adminCode1&gt;M&lt;/adminCode1&gt;
&lt;adminName1&gt;Lorraine&lt;/adminName1&gt;
&lt;adminCode2&gt;57&lt;/adminCode2&gt;
&lt;adminName2&gt;MOSELLE&lt;/adminName2&gt;
&lt;adminCode3&gt;57171&lt;/adminCode3&gt;
&lt;adminName3/&gt;
&lt;/code&gt;
&lt;/geonames&gt;
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First, I noticed that adminCode1 is in a fips format but in iso one in the dump.

Then I made another request :


[url]
http://ws.geonames.org/search?maxRows=10&featureCode=PPL&country=FR&q=Delme&adminCode1=B2&adminCode2=57&maxRows=10&style=LONG&lang=fr
[/url]

The result is :

<span class="genmed"><b>Code:</b></span><br>
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&lt;geonames style="LONG"&gt;
&lt;totalResultsCount&gt;1&lt;/totalResultsCount&gt;
−
&lt;geoname&gt;
&lt;name&gt;Delme&lt;/name&gt;
&lt;lat&gt;48.8833333&lt;/lat&gt;
&lt;lng&gt;6.4&lt;/lng&gt;
&lt;geonameId&gt;3021626&lt;/geonameId&gt;
&lt;countryCode&gt;FR&lt;/countryCode&gt;
&lt;countryName&gt;France&lt;/countryName&gt;
&lt;fcl&gt;P&lt;/fcl&gt;
&lt;fcode&gt;PPL&lt;/fcode&gt;
&lt;fclName&gt;city, village,...&lt;/fclName&gt;
&lt;fcodeName&gt;populated place&lt;/fcodeName&gt;
&lt;population&gt;754&lt;/population&gt;
&lt;/geoname&gt;
&lt;/geonames&gt;
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Then I request in the database for the geonames id returned :3021626
admin1_code is B2 (iso)	
admin2_code is 57	
admin3_code is 	572
admin4_code is 57171

Why in the postal Code Search admin3_code is 57171 (which is the admin_code 4 in the database?)

I'm also wondering why the admin1_code format is ISO in the dump and FIPS in the ws result ?

Thank you by advance 

Fred

P.S : I have another question. If I notice a (noticeable) difference between geonames and googlemaps  about the lat and lng coords for the same place, should I rely on the google one and make the change in geonames, or just send you the case for information ?]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:08:18]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ fred.wolf]]></author>
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				<title>Re:How to exclude the hotels in search? </title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Hi, 
do you want to search everything but hotels or specific features ?

You could use the feature parameter more than once. It's a little bit heavy but it should work.

Fred]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 3 Sep 2007 22:10:31]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ fred.wolf]]></author>
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				<title>Re:No postal codes in database dump</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Hi Mark,

Thank you for the link. 

But one thing puzzles me, admin1_code in geonames are differents from admin1_code from postal codes ones. I searched in the forum clue but I didn't find anything. Can you enligthen me please ?

Edit :

Ok, I read more carefuly the doc and I found that postal code has admin1 ISO 3166-2 codes and geonames fips codes. Is that right ? 

My goal was to link postal codes to geonames using coutry, admin-1 and admin_2. Which fields do you utilize in the web service to link the two tables ?
 
regards,

Fred]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 2 Sep 2007 05:48:43]]> GMT</pubDate>
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