http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/listByUser/678.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net roadside attractions' are a part of the culture here in the United States. Usually something claiming to be 'the world's largest', or some collossal piece of art/sculpture. I'm English, so Amercian culture will always seem a little bizarre to me at times :) A couple of the many web sites devoted to them:

• http://www.roadsideamerica.com/
• http://www.wlra.us/

You may not agree it's worthwhile, and I'd respect that if so. But I know I'd put it to good use :) Paul]]> http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/preList/705/3210.page#3210 http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/preList/705/3210.page#3210 GMT http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/preList/713/3193.page#3193 http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/preList/713/3193.page#3193 GMT http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/preList/130/3192.page#3192 http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/preList/130/3192.page#3192 GMT

Public Restroom

Public Telephone

First Aid Station

I've been looking at amusement park maps again :), and while I see a code for ATM, I didn't see the others, and they seem generally applicable. Perhaps something else worth considering - disinguishing those that are equipped for disabled/deaf people from those that are not. Paul]]> http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/preList/130/3191.page#3191 http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/preList/130/3191.page#3191 GMT http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/preList/130/3190.page#3190 http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/preList/130/3190.page#3190 GMT http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/featureCodes.txt. I like tags as an approach in general, but here I'm concerned that the 'free format' of tags means consistency goes out of the window. Any two people from the same culture won't tag in the same way consistently, throw in cultural/language differences and there's no hope. That's where the rigid taxonomy really brings benefits - in sharing the information, and building on it. Which reminds me - are tags public or private to me? they're not mentioned at all in the online manual. By the way, looking at the maps for a couple of amusement parks, it seems 'attraction' is the preferred term, rather than 'ride'. Makes sense, not all attractions are rides. Amusement parks can be huge - take a look at the grand daddy of them all - Disneyworld in Orlando, Florida. 44 square miles... approximately the size of San Francisco. Big enough that I think it's useful to be able to add more points-of-interest within that area. Paul p.s. You don't need to have kids to enjoy a good amusement park :)]]> http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/preList/705/3189.page#3189 http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/preList/705/3189.page#3189 GMT http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/preList/707/3188.page#3188 http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/preList/707/3188.page#3188 GMT http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/preList/706/3163.page#3163 http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/preList/706/3163.page#3163 GMT http://ws.geonames.org/findNearbyPlaceName?lat=48.85832&lng=2.29452 gives us 'Invalides' at 0.86 km. http://ws.geonames.org/findNearbyWikipedia?lat=48.85832&lng=2.29452 gives us 'Effiel Tower' at 0.03 km. I've just been geotagging pictures from a recent Disneyland vacation. Anyone here know where 'Neff' is? (a nearby subdomain in Anaheim, apparently). I've had to manually fix up nearly a thousand images with either 'Disneyland' or 'California Adventure'. I'd really like to see a web service offered that includes a configurable mix of point-of-interest data when reverse-geocoding. In the interests of sparking discussion, I'd like to propose a three-phase API: Step One: an API that returns a list of featurecodes and description in an easily-parsed format (I think this exists?). I'm imagining this would be used by an application to build a preference panel for the user to select which points of interest should be included (like the selection tree in the web UI) Step Two: the application provides a list of featurecodes to the web API, which returns some opaque ID as a private shorthand representation of that combination. This is to avoid geonames having to maintain state, or deal with URLs with a very large number of parameters per query. I'd imagine the application would do this each time it started, and whenever the preferences were changed. Step Three: the opaque key can be used as an optional parameter to a reverse-geotagging API, to control what is & isn't included in the response. I'd love to see one that merges wikipedia data, even if it's all lumped under one featurecode dedicated to wikipedia entries (since they don't seem to classify). Paul ]]> http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/preList/707/3153.page#3153 http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/preList/707/3153.page#3153 GMT http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/preList/130/3152.page#3152 http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/preList/130/3152.page#3152 GMT L.AMUS - Amusement Park, and also ask for a code for 'Amusement Park Ride' (L.RIDE?), as discussed in another thread Paul]]> http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/preList/130/3151.page#3151 http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/preList/130/3151.page#3151 GMT http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/preList/706/3150.page#3150 http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/preList/706/3150.page#3150 GMT http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/preList/706/3144.page#3144 http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/preList/706/3144.page#3144 GMT http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/preList/705/3143.page#3143 http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/preList/705/3143.page#3143 GMT error while saving:' message. I've registered, logged in, selected the point in question (the Matterhorn ride at Disneyland in Anaheim, California), clicked the 'move' link, been invited to move it, moved it to the correct location, then hit 'save' in the tooltip, it attempts to save the new location, then after less than a second I get the 'error while saving' message, with no further explanation. I'm getting a lot of benefit from the service (indirectly when geotagging pictures) and I'd love to contribute back. But I'm stumbling at the first hurdle. BTW, how does one add new points? Paul]]> http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/preList/706/3138.page#3138 http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/preList/706/3138.page#3138 GMT http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/preList/705/3137.page#3137 http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/preList/705/3137.page#3137 GMT