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				<title>Some Geonames are not at the right spot</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Hi, 

I'm new to this but i very well know where places are around home and i have previously been working as a professional map maker.

Some of the GeoNames are off by several thousand meters. Before i start to put them in the right places i want to verify that there is nothing else wrong. Is there any other ways to add GeoNames except for the web GUI which could give misalignment? More than a few seems to be off with approximate the same distance and direction. Is it common that people misalign the locations?

I use Geosetter to geotag my photos. Geosetter use geonames.org for for the location data and i have noticed before that it sometimes gives very strange location data for the GPS coordinates.

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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:00:51]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:Some Geonames are not at the right spot</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Bengt

The pattern you observe if from a dataset from the US army with rounded coordinates.

Best

Marc]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:43:20]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:Some Geonames are not at the right spot</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ So i assume then that it is "safe" to adjust my "local" GeoNames to more correct coordinates.

Thanks
Bengt]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:49:02]]> GMT</pubDate>
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