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				<title>Re:Reverse geocoding and container</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ there is nothing weird.

findNearby returns everything including hotels,
findNearbyPlaceName returns populated places including neighbourhoods (PPLX)

your query returns populated places, and Neuilly-sur-Seine has the feature code PPL in the database.

Best

Marc
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:52:53]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:Reverse geocoding and container</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Sorry if I was not clear.
What I meant if that, with the last query, I'd expect to get Paris as an answer (since the point is in Paris) but I get Neuilly-sur-Seine.
I guess that is because the point is nearer (in distance) from Neuilly city-center than from Paris city-center.

So, instead of 'nearest place' for coordinates, is there a way to get the PPL that contains these particular coordinates ?

Thanks a lot]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:11:15]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:Reverse geocoding and container</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ As far as I know Neuilly-sur-Seine is independent of Paris the city. Wasn't Sarkozy a Mayor there?

Information about Metropolitan areas and relation of PPL forming them is not yet supported:
http://groups.google.com/group/geonames/browse_thread/thread/c6bcb654641e8b66

Best

Marc]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:03:25]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:Reverse geocoding and container</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Indeed that's an independant city.
So - and this is my original question - , when I give coordinates of a point which is in Paris, I don't understand why I get Neuilly and not Paris, cf:

http://ws.geonames.org/findNearby?lat=48.86833190917969&lng=2.295694351196289&featureClass=P&featureCode=PPLA&featureCode=PPL&featureCode=PPLC

(Ths coordinates: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=fr&geocode=&q=48.86833190917969+2.295694351196289&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=27.22791,74.179688&ie=UTF8&ll=48.870474,2.305756&spn=0.044036,0.144882&t=h&z=13 )

I guess that what I'm looking is a containedInPPL-like feature ? (which is an independent feature from what you're mentioning with metropolitan areas)

Thanks]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:23:15]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:Reverse geocoding and container</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ GeoNames doesn't know the boundaries of Paris.  The service is called 'nearBy' and returns the nearest city (distance to centroid).

Best

Marc]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:00:33]]> GMT</pubDate>
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