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				<title>Why is Darwin called Palmerston?</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ I understand that originally Darwin (city of Australia) was called Palmerston, but how come a search query still returns "Palmerston" as the PPLA result today?

I'm calling http://ws.geonames.org/search?q=Darwin&country=Australia and getting the first result, listed as PPLA, of "Palmerston".  There is no geoname in the results which refers specifically to "Darwin", as in the populated city.

I need a service which provides the place name that is commonly known to the public.  Am I missing something?  Should I be supplying a parameter which requests "common name"?

Any help appreciated.  I like this service and don't want to go hunting for another one.

Regards,
Peter.]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 25 Nov 2006 05:25:26]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ Anonymous]]></author>
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				<title>Re:Why is Darwin called Palmerston?</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Thanks for fixing!

Very much appreciated :)

Pete.]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 25 Nov 2006 07:46:07]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ Anonymous]]></author>
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				<title>Re:Why is Darwin called Palmerston?</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Hi Pete

I have created a new geoname for <a href="http://www.geonames.org/maps/geonameId=6301965" target="_new" rel="nofollow">Palmerston</a> and I have deleted some alternate names 'Palmerston' for Darwin.  For the remaining alternate name 'Palmerston' I have set a flag 'isFormerName'.

I have also corrected the coordinates in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmerston,_Northern_Territory" target="_new" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia for Palmerston</a>. Wikipedia had the coordinates for Darwin in the article for Palmerston, which was one reason for this confusion.

Marc]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 25 Nov 2006 07:55:49]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ marc]]></author>
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