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				<title>I need solutions! Hydrographic Features</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Hey I am putting together a large database of lakes in Pennsylvania and a few other US states. I have mainly been doing this through google earth. However I am having some problems

1. Google Earth 6 doesn't have lakes, so I tried this http://geonames.wordpress.com/2006/08/06/google-earth/

That approach works ok, but not that great because the order of importance is all screwed up in the Hydrographic Features. The hydrographic feature cares more about "forks, runs, creeks, swamps" more than it cares about actual lakes. In other words, unless I'm zoomed into the exact lake I want the name for, the feature shows me nothing but meaningless runs and forks and creeks while missing huge lakes in the process.

I think the ordering of importance is backwards. Lakes should come first, and then all this other stuff nobody really cares about should come second. I've zoomed into all the "runs" in pennsylvania to confirm they are useless pieces of data.

I am thinking of buying the Geonames thing on the homepage. But I am unsure of what I am going to get. I would LOVE a feature that enables me to ignore all creeks, forks, runs, and swamps in hydrographic features.

Bottom line, I need 3 pieces of information:

Lake Name, County lake is located in, and GPS coordinate, and then an easy way to export this information to an excel file. I don't care how the job gets done.


If anybody has any ideas please tell! This project is a pain in the butt, I can't imagine going through more states like this.

Thanks for reading,

Zach]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:29:37]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:I need solutions! Hydrographic Features</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Hi Zach

We are working on a simple export utility.
I have run it for the featurecodes LK and LKS for the US:
http://download.geonames.org/export/tmp/cstmexp52184.csv

The final file has 68013 rows and a size of 10166 kb. 


Best

Marc]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 3 Feb 2011 07:55:12]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>I need solutions! Hydrographic Features</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Thanks Marc, I appreciate the work

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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 3 Feb 2011 12:06:09]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ semago]]></author>
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