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				<description><![CDATA[ Quick 2 questions for ya'll.

First, we have been using Geonames WS's for a while and I recently went and looked at our code. It seems we are using services on: 
http://ws.geonames.org/... 

where the current docs seem to call for:
http://api.geonames.org/....
 The thing is my service calls still works. Is there a preferred endpoint? What is the difference?

Second, some posts in the form suggest that the findNearby service can accept multiple featureCodes to search by, I have a question about how it works. Does it return all of a specific feature codes first? And then another until the maxRows is full? How does it work to populate the results within the maximum number of rows?

For example: 
http://api.geonames.org/findNearby?lat=47.3&lng=9&username=demo&radius=20&featureCode=BANK&featureCode=PPL&maxRows=100 returns far more PPL than BANK.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance<a href='' target='_new' rel="nofollow"></a><a href='' target='_new' rel="nofollow"></a><a href='' target='_new' rel="nofollow"></a>]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 24 Sep 2011 07:18:07]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ astropcr]]></author>
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				<title>Re:findNearby</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ The ws domain is deprecated, please use the api domain:
http://geonames.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/application-identification-for-free-geonames-web-services/

The findNearby is sorted by distance. It will return the n closest rows independant of the featureCode. There are just more populated places than banks in the database.


Best Regards

Marc]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 25 Sep 2011 08:52:17]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ marc]]></author>
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				<title>Re:findNearby</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Cool Marc, thanks for the information. We will switch over our service endpoints.]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:31:57]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ astropcr]]></author>
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