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				<title>Placemarks around Leuven show wrong admin division</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Dear GeoNames,

There are a lot of placemarks around <a href="http://www.geonames.org/2792481/arrondissement-leuven.html" target="_new" rel="nofollow">Leuven, Belgium</a>. But almost all of them show Belgium » Wallonia » Province du Hainaut in their info balloon. This is wrong. Leuven is close to Wallonia but it is Flanders. It should be Belgium » Flanders » Provincie Vlaams-Brabant » Arrondisement Leuven.

It's kinda hard to correct this by hand. Any idea if this could be automated?

Also, all new placemarks will be wrong so could anyone correct this?

Thanks!]]></description>
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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:40:15]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ Cimm]]></author>
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				<title>Re:Placemarks around Leuven show wrong admin division</title>
				<description><![CDATA[ Hi Cimm,

this problem is not only for Leuven.
As Marc has explained in another thread, in border regions the reverse geocoding is not perfect and may locate a place in a neighbouring area :
http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/448.page#4499

At the moment, we have no way to fix it automatically.

To help fixing wrong places, you may prepare a mass-update :

1/ download BE country daily dump :
http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/BE.zip
from this page :
http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/

2/ edit BE.txt in Excel to fix wrong data

3/ save the file as BE.csv and send it to Marc to update the database.

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				<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:50:57]]> GMT</pubDate>
				<author><![CDATA[ geotree]]></author>
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