http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/4.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net placetypes, and Gisgraphy download the files and import them with all the alternateNames (optional), and sync the database with the fulltext search engine * REST WebService * Several output formats supported : XML, json, PHP, ruby, python, Atom, RSS / GeoRSS Full text search (based on Lucene / Solr with default filters optimized for city search (case insensitivity, separator characters stripping, ..) via an Java API or a webservice * Findnearby function (with limits, pagination, restrict to a specific country and/or language and other useful options) via a Java API or a Web Service * An admin / back office whith statistics interface * Fully replicated / scalable / high performance / cached services * Search for zipcode name, IATA, ICAO * Internationalized (with support of cyrillique, arabic, chinese,... alphabet) * Dojo widgets / prototype / Ajax to ease search but can be use it even if javascript is not enabled on the client side * Opensearch module * Plateform / language independent * Provides all the countries flags in svg and png format * ... ps : The goal of gisgraphy is not to replace geonames WS, but to offer possibility to use geonames data in a free open source framework !]]> http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/1231.page#5269 http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/1231.page#5269 GMT