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				<title>Switzerland adm3</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Hello,

numerous towns/villages in Switzerland are flagged as adm3 (communes) only. The associated PPL don't exist in the database. Ex: Carrouge.

In general, when looking at the swiss map, there are more administrative divisions than populated places, which is quite weird...

Regards]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 26 Feb 2011 02:47:06]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ ludaw]]></author>
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				<title>Re:Switzerland adm3</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ The problem is that we don't know the populated places in a adm3. The Swiss National Mapping Agency 'swisstopo' has a free offering of their product 'swissnames':
http://www.toposhop.admin.ch/en/shop/products/landscape/names/index

Unfortunately it only includes 18004 records. The adm3 Carrouge is included but the populated place is missing.

Out of those 18004 toponyms only 7799 are from Switzerland:
7799 CH
4033 FR
3619 IT
1824 DE
729 AT

There is a commercial product with far more rows, but I don't think we would be allowed to use it even if we buy it.

We could instead use the official postal code data for the populated places. I will have a look at it.

Best

Marc]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 26 Feb 2011 14:52:24]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ marc]]></author>
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				<title>Re:Switzerland adm3</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Thanks Marc!

It would be a useful addition! ]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 2 Mar 2011 18:49:11]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ ludaw]]></author>
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				<title>Re:Switzerland adm3</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ I made a quick search about the postal codes database. The one distributed by the swiss post office isn't free and has some restrictive licence. I couldn't find anything else with a sufficient level of details.

Have you been luckier than me?

Best]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:58:24]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ ludaw]]></author>
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				<title>Re:Switzerland adm3</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ There is a postal code dataset provided by the postal office, it does not include any lat/lng:
https://match.postmail.ch/match_zip
I don't see any license for it.

There is another dataset with lat/lng provided by the national survey agency:
http://www.cadastre.ch/internet/cadastre/de/home/products/plz/data.html
It has some kind of attribution license. "Der Datensatz darf frei verwendet werden. Bei kommerzieller Anwendung verlangen wir eine Quell-angabe «Amtliche Vermessung Schweiz / swisstopo»."

Marc]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:14:54]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:Switzerland adm3</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ I saw this dataset, which isn't free : http://www.post.ch/post-startseite/post-geschaeftskunden/post-direct-marketing/post-direct-marketing-national/post-direct-marketing-adressen/post-direct-marketing-geopost/post-direct-marketing-geopost-zipcodes-geo.htm

But the one you found (cadastre.ch) seems excellent! The french version insists on the free use of the data (red font in the source):

<blockquote>Le jeu de données peut être utilisé <font color='red'>sans aucune restriction</font>. En cas d'utilisation commerciale, nous exigeons une indication de source «Mensuration Officielle Suisse / swisstopo».&nbsp;
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It should be sufficient to add a line in the data sources page on geonames (I guess)

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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 15 Mar 2011 23:05:21]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ ludaw]]></author>
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