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				<title>Question about web service vs. dump download</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ hello,

I have a question about an apparent difference in results that I get when using the web service or use the download files.


My aim is to produce a list of all names in the countries Angola, Botswana and Namibia.

When I use the web service I retrieve 300 results. As that's less than the max 1000 that could be returned, I supposed that those were all the available names for those countries (the request I used was: <a href='http://api.geonames.org/search?country=ao&country=bw&country=na&type=xml&syle=full&username=demo' target='_new' rel="nofollow">http://api.geonames.org/search?country=ao&country=bw&country=na&type=xml&syle=full&username=demo</a>).


Then I downloaded the zip files for those 3 countries, and together they contain more than 50.000 entries.


Can someone explain to me this difference ? Does my web service query somehow filter out a lot of the data that is available in the download files ?



thanks in advance for your replies
kind regards
Heikki Doeleman]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 2 Jul 2011 17:39:58]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:Question about web service vs. dump download</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ The web service is not intended to provide all features for a country, this would not make any sense.
The webservice clearly says in the first element totalResultsCount=51808, per default it returns 100 rows.

Best

Marc]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 2 Jul 2011 17:50:50]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Re:Question about web service vs. dump download</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ thank you for your reply.

I'm still curious to know how exactly works the web service: obviously it filters on something, but what is the filter exactly ? I can't find any documentation on this.

Could you shed some light on this ?

thank you and kind regards
Heikki Doeleman]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 3 Jul 2011 02:49:44]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ heikki]]></author>
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				<title>Re:Question about web service vs. dump download</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ The documentation is here:
http://www.geonames.org/export/geonames-search.html

It is a search service and returns the features for the search criteria.

Marc]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 3 Jul 2011 07:19:04]]> GMT</pubDate>
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