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				<title>Places in New Brunswick, listed as places in Maine.</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ ID #6943603, Perth, ME (really NB), 46.68595N, 67.61604W
ID #6943606, Lower Perth, ME (really NB), 46.70285, -67.71938
ID #6943730, Bon Accord, ME (really NB), 46.6492, -67.5925

I found the above while trying to figure out why timezone shapefiles were telling me that the timezone for these places is America/Moncton, a Canadian timezone.

I was doubting the shapefiles, but now I can see it's the place data that doesn't make sense. I looked up the lat/long coordinates in Google maps, and not only are the coordinates in Canada, the places names are there too. This isn't just a matter of bad coordinates for actual US places names.

This makes me wonder just how much unreliable data is in allCountries.zip, since I'm currently only sampling a small portion of the data, and not all errors are going to stand out as much as these.]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 25 Feb 2011 05:57:50]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ Silent3]]></author>
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				<title>Re:Places in New Brunswick, listed as places in Maine.</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ If you find errors please feel free to fix them: http://www.geonames.org/about.html

Marc ]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 25 Feb 2011 07:10:45]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ marc]]></author>
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				<title>Re:Places in New Brunswick, listed as places in Maine.</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Should my forum username/password work for this, or do I need to set up a new account for editing data?]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 25 Feb 2011 17:17:02]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:Places in New Brunswick, listed as places in Maine.</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Never mind... I just went ahead and created a matching account with the same name I'm using here in the forums.]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 25 Feb 2011 17:30:45]]> GMT</pubDate>
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