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				<title>Is everything in the GeoName countries?</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ The 'Name' column of the GeoName database refers to what?

If there is a reference table available online for what each column is, then I would appreciate a link (I tried looking for it but couldn't find anything).

I find it hard to believe that the 'Name' column refers to cities...because I don't think there are cities with 0 population...

If they're not cities, then what are they?]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:26:52]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ oyen]]></author>
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				<title>Re:Is everything in the GeoName countries?</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Please read the readme:
http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/readme.txt

The 'name' field stands for the 'name' of the toponym. A toponym is not necesarily a city and even for cities the population may be empty (0=n/a).

Marc]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:28:11]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:Is everything in the GeoName countries?</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ I checked that before but I didn't quite understand everything. Thank you for explaining it.

BTW is there an updated version of allcountries.txt?
the Philippines has a name 'Philippine Islands' when its official name is 'Republic of the Philippines']]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:51:56]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:Is everything in the GeoName countries?</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ The file allcountries.txt is updated daily. please feel free to help us improve it: http://www.geonames.org/manual.html

Marc]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:11:22]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Is everything in the GeoName countries?</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ So if I read a line in the the geoname table
I should be able to index fields

1   name
4   latitude
5   longitude
8   country code
16 elevation
18 timezone

# python code to read line
s=f.read() # read text line
s.split(',') # split (I'm not sure comma or tab separated)
elev = s[16]

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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:48:37]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ bruce]]></author>
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				<title>Re:Is everything in the GeoName countries?</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ I can see that the wiki has the right entry for the Philippines. Unfortunately, the allcountries.txt that I downloaded recently does not have the right entry in it. I'll download one right now to check if it only changed recently - like in the last couple of weeks (but I doubt it).]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:50:44]]> GMT</pubDate>
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