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				<title>Confused.  Finding City Names</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ I am probably missing something simple.  But I am trying to find the actual City name, in Canada, rather than smaller parts of a city.

For example, using Lat/Long for a point in Niagara Falls, ON, CANADA, I receive only 3 relevant placename entries:

Niagara Falls Southeast
Niagara Falls Central
Niagara Falls West

What I really need is just the city itself Niagara Falls.  This seems to hold true for other cities, like Toronto (which is actually even a bit worse for me).

My current query:
http://api.geonames.org/findNearbyPostalCodesJSON?formatted=true&lat=43.0842229&lng=-79.0915813&maxRows=20&radius=20&username=xxxxxxx

Is there something else I can do to get the result(s) I need?  The additional processing I will do will not handle the "sub areas"

Thank you.

PS:  Sorry if I do not use the terminology yet for this forum.  I'm new ;-)]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 11 Sep 2013 07:05:00]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ jmullan99]]></author>
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				<title>Re:Confused.  Finding City Names</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ I think I am having a similar problem, but with the "findNearbyPlaceNameJSON" API endpoint.  The results are often "too precise" for my needs.  For example, a query for lat=33.7739155&lng=-84.3277991 returns "Druid Hills" as the toponymName, but Druid Hills is just a neighborhood within the city of Atlanta and what I really want in this case is the city name.  Similarly lat=37.4513166&lng=-79.2018377 returns "Peakland" as the toponymName, whereas I am looking for the enclosing city (Lynchburg).

Is there any way I can get at that information?

Many thanks!
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 24 Nov 2013 11:27:24]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ irose]]></author>
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				<title>Re:Confused.  Finding City Names</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ I'm having the same difficulty, not with the API, but with the geonames dumps. It's too exact, and often results are not a city, but a street or just some spot....confused as well!]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 9 Jan 2014 21:55:00]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ petervk]]></author>
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