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				<title>The same name twice or more</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Hi!

This is my first message and I would like to say that it's one of the best projects that I've alread seen. Congratulations.

Now I have one question: I got the geonames database dump and noticed that there are more than one line with the name São Paulo and with the same informations (feature class, feature code, country, etc).

I'm talking about these lines:

3388242	São Paulo	Sao Paulo		-7.95	-38.4166667	P	PPL	BR		30				0		478	America/Maceio	1993-12-17
3388243	São Paulo	Sao Paulo		-7.9166667	-37.6166667	P	PPL	BR		30				0		863	America/Maceio	1993-12-17

What's the diference? The lat/lng is a little diferente, just this.

Thanks a lot!

Bye.]]></description>
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				<title>Re:The same name twice or more</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Hi

It happens quite often that different places have the same name in the same country. It just means that there are two places with the name "São Paulo".

Cheers

Marc]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:05:53]]> GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>The same name twice or more</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ H marc.

I agree with you. Some countries some times have the same name of a place twice (or more).

But I don`t believe that here, in Brazil, we have a lot of Sao Paulo cities as below:

3388241	São Paulo	Sao Paulo		-9.45	-36.0333333	P	PPL	BR		02				0		162	America/Maceio	1993-12-17
3388242	São Paulo	Sao Paulo		-7.95	-38.4166667	P	PPL	BR		30				0		478	America/Maceio	1993-12-17
3388243	São Paulo	Sao Paulo		-7.9166667	-37.6166667	P	PPL	BR		30				0		863	America/Maceio	1993-12-17
3388244	São Paulo	Sao Paulo		-7.6166667	-37.0833333	P	PPL	BR		17				0		626	America/Maceio	1993-12-17
3388245	São Paulo	Sao Paulo		-7.0333333	-39.3333333	P	PPL	BR		06				0		619	America/Fortaleza	1993-12-17
3388246	São Paulo	Sao Paulo		-6.6166667	-38.15	P	PPL	BR		17				0		330	America/Fortaleza	1993-12-17
3388247	São Paulo	Sao Paulo		-6.1666667	-39.65	P	PPL	BR		06				0		464	America/Fortaleza	1993-12-17
3388248	São Paulo	Sao Paulo		-6.0	-36.2	P	PPL	BR		22				0		289	America/Recife	1993-12-17
3388249	São Paulo	Sao Paulo		-5.9041667	-36.6744444	P	PPL	BR		22				0		141	America/Fortaleza	1995-10-16
3388250	São Paulo	Sao Paulo		-5.7166667	-48.1666667	P	PPL	BR		31				0		76	America/Araguaina	1993-12-17
3388251	São Paulo	Sao Paulo		-5.5666667	-42.0666667	P	PPL	BR		20				0		109	America/Fortaleza	1993-12-17
3388252	São Paulo	Sao Paulo		-5.1911111	-36.2466667	P	PPL	BR		22				0		32	America/Fortaleza	1995-10-16
3388253	São Paulo	Sao Paulo		-4.25	-57.25	P	PPL	BR		04				0		100	America/Manaus	1993-12-17
3388254	São Paulo	Sao Paulo		-3.8	-40.0166667	P	PPL	BR		06				0		142	America/Fortaleza	1993-12-17
3388255	São Paulo	Sao Paulo		-3.2166667	-57.0833333	P	PPL	BR		04				0		31	America/Manaus	1993-12-17
3388256	São Paulo	Sao Paulo		-2.4666667	-45.2	P	PPL	BR		13				0		67	America/Belem	1993-12-17
3388257	São Paulo	Sao Paulo		-1.6333333	-44.9666667	P	PPL	BR		13				0		1	America/Belem	1993-12-17
3388258	São Paulo	Sao Paulo		-4.7833333	-38.7666667	L	AREA	BR		06				0		127	America/Fortaleza	1993-12-17
3388259	São Paulo	Sao Paulo		-4.2166667	-38.4	L	AREA	BR		06				0		32	America/Fortaleza	1993-12-17

So, I don`t understand why there are so many cities with this name (and there are a lot with diferente names too).

Thanks.]]></description>
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