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				<title>Filter findbyPlaceName result by fclass</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Is that possible?

Right now, it only has the optional radius filter and I sometimes get funky results from the web service.

To be specific, I would like to limit it to only return results of fclass A.

Thanks in advance,
javester]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 1 Nov 2006 03:24:59]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:Filter findNearbyPlaceName result by fclass</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ First of all, I mistyped the subject line on my earlier post.  I meant findNearbyPlaceName.

As for my problem, what do I mean exactly by funky?

I called the service as follows:

http://ws.geonames.org/findNearbyPlaceName?lat=37.421981&lng=-122.084013

And it returns "Santiago Villa Mobile Home Park" which is 1.377 kms away.  Its feature class P (city, village...)

Just 0.07 kms from that spot though is "Googleplex", with feature class "S", which findPlaceName never returns, even if I limit the radius parameter.

Which makes me wonder if findNearbyPlaceName is hardwired to only query P class features.]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 1 Nov 2006 14:13:21]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:Filter findbyPlaceName result by fclass</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Hi javester

The findNearbyPlaceName service is restricted to populated places. There is another service called <i>findNearby</i> for all features. 

http://ws.geonames.org/findNearby?lat=37.421981&lng=-122.084013

It also takes the optional parameter <b>featureClass</b> to restrict the search to a featureClass.

Example :
http://ws.geonames.org/findNearby?lat=37.421981&lng=-122.084013&featureClass=A

The 'findNearby' service is undocument as it is not yet performance optimized. 

Regards

Marc]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 1 Nov 2006 18:27:42]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:Filter findbyPlaceName result by fclass</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Thanks heaps Marc for the quick reply!

BTW, when do you expect the findNearby service to be officially launched?  I would like to take advantage of it for a project I'm working on and its just about ready for primetime.

BTW, does geonames have a Paypal account?  We'd like to contribute to such a worthy cause...

More power to Geonames!
javester]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 1 Nov 2006 21:49:38]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:Filter findbyPlaceName result by fclass</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Hi Javester

I don't know when the findNearby will be launched and documented. Do you only need featureClass=A ? It would be easy for me to set up a database index for this, so you don't have to wait till all possible search parameter combinations have acceptable performance.

Regards

Marc

PS : Yes there is a paypal account : http://www.geonames.org/donations.html]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 2 Nov 2006 18:38:57]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ marc]]></author>
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				<title>Re:Filter findbyPlaceName result by fclass</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Marc,
It turns out I do need something like findNearby to find the nearest feature, regardless of class.  

I now use FindNearbyPostalCodes instead to get the city/town/village name reliably, which was the original reason why I wanted to filter on class A.

So findNearby's current behavior is really what I need.  Would it be OK to use it even though its still not officially launched? (cross fingers) :)

Best,
Javester]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 2 Nov 2006 18:56:04]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:Filter findbyPlaceName result by fclass</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Javester

Of course you can use it and I don't expect changes in the API. The only thing that prevents an official release is the fact that I did not yet had the time to look at performance optimizations.

Regards

Marc]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 2 Nov 2006 18:59:10]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:Filter findbyPlaceName result by fclass</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Hi. Would it be possible to add featureCode parameter to the FindNearby. I would like to find, say, just the ATMs 10km from a lat/lon point. Sorry if it's a newbie question.]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:44:27]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ Michael Waltuch]]></author>
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				<title>Re:Filter findbyPlaceName result by fclass</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Try the 'featureCode' parameter, example : http://ws.geonames.org/findNearby?lat=37.421981&lng=-122.084013&featureCode=HTL&maxRows=10&radius=10

We have hardly any ATM information. For Switzerland I have a file somewhere for all Raiffeisenbank ATM, but it is not yet loaded into GeoNames. For other countries you could help us and ask the banks for ATM data.

Regards

Marc]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:39:27]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ marc]]></author>
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				<title>Re:Filter findbyPlaceName result by fclass</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Many thanks for quick reply. ]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:56:56]]> GMT</pubDate>
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