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Different coordinates for local and English name of location

cyberjunkie — GMT

I discovered that the latitude and longitude differs according to the language of the location. For example the international name of the city Bucharest returns lat: 44.43224761932805 lng: 26.10626220703125 and the local name Bucureşti returns lat: 44.428018465078985 lng: 26.096649169921875 Why is this?

Re:Different coordinates for local and English name of location

marc — GMT

You are certainly getting two different features. One is probably the populated place and the other the administrative division. Marc

Re:Different coordinates for local and English name of location

cyberjunkie — GMT

Thanks Marc! I think that you are right. I'm using javascript to retrieve data from the webserver, which I add to an auto-suggest dropdown list. It appears that I'm retrieving the administrative division but why am I also getting populated place? Code:

label: item.name + (item.adminName1 ? ", " + item.adminName1 : "") + ", " + item.countryName,
value: item.name + (item.adminName1 ? ", " + item.adminName1 : "") + ", " + item.countryName,

edit: I'm also using feature class P because I want just to retrieve cities or towns. Is it possible to omit popular places or administrative division to get just one?

Re:Different coordinates for local and English name of location

marc — GMT

you can use the parameter featureClass=P to only get populated places. The search service is described here: http://www.geonames.org/export/geonames-search.html Best Regards Marc