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findNearbyPlaceName -> alternate cityname

rio — GMT

Hello Is it possible to receive an "alternate cityname" in the server response. eg: The response for cityname of this request: http://ws.geonames.org/findNearbyPlaceName?lat=47.0602&lng=8.28842 is always "lucerne" but I need the alternate German name "Luzern". Is there perhaps a undocumented parameter in the GET Request? (like ...&language=de...) Thank you for your answers greets

Re:findNearbyPlaceName -> alternate cityname

marc — GMT

Hi Rio I am afraid this is not yet possible. Marc

Re:findNearbyPlaceName -> alternate cityname

rio — GMT

Hi Marc Thanks for your fast answer. Luzern would be the correct name for this city - because is in swiss-german area :D . Lucerne is the english-name. Is it now allowed to rename "lucerne" in "Luzern" and edit/add the english cityname in "Lucerne". if this is not allowed it's no problem for me, so I will change the name local on my server. greets

Re:findNearbyPlaceName -> alternate cityname

marc — GMT

Hi Rio Sure this would be an option. Normally we have the international name as the main name. You could argue that "Luzern" is also a recognized international name. Marc

Re:findNearbyPlaceName -> alternate cityname

giorgio79 — GMT

Very nice question. One I have been looking for as well. Namely getting the local name for places For example, this one http://ws.geonames.org/findNearby?lat=43.7695&lng=11.2575&featureClass=P&featureCode=PPLA&featureCode=PPL&featureCode=PPLC gives back "Florence" but in reality it should be Firenze :) This poses an interesting issue, namely languages. Should we add a language table for locality names? I hope there will be a feature code coming along the way for this :) Cheers, G PS: I did find an interesting post here mentioning adding the parameter "lang=pl" (for Polish ) http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/866.page Can we do this with all languages?

Re:findNearbyPlaceName -> alternate cityname

marc — GMT

I don't know when we will have time to implement this feature (and make sure it has some acceptable performance) Yes, you can query for the name of administrative divisisions and countries in all languages and it will return it (if included in the database, if not you can add it with the user interface, it will then be included with the next release.) Marc

Re:findNearbyPlaceName -> alternate cityname

Antalya — GMT

Hi Marc, Thanks again. Another question follows is that what are the language codes we can add to the queries like lang=it or lang=pl, etc. I did succeed with these, and would love to have now all the language code. I found this, but I doubt this would be it http://www.geonames.de/codlang.html Will keep looking Cheers, G PS: I just found this post http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/841.page It seems I am looking for a list of available alternateNames lang codes like here Antalya 36.9125 30.6897222 323777 TR Turkey P PPLA city, village,... seat of a first-order administrative division 758188 − Adalia,Antal'ja,Antalia,Antaliyah,Antalya,Antayla,Antália,Attalia,Olbia,Satalia,Αττάλεια,Анталия,Анталья,אנטליה,アンタルヤ,安塔利亞 AS 07 Antalya Province アンタルヤ Adalia Adalia Antália Antaliyah Antalya Antalya Antalya Antalya Antalya Antalya Antalya Antalya Antalya Antalya Antalya Antalya Antalya Antalya Antalya Antalya Antayla Attalia Olbia Satalia אנטליה Αττάλεια Анталия Анталья 安塔利亞 Europe/Istanbul

Re:findNearbyPlaceName -> alternate cityname

giorgio79 — GMT

I just found the instructions to import into mysql the entire db, and there I see the alternatenames table :) I think I will be getting the whole db :P