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matching country/admin codes in downloadables

2008-07-22T22:48:22Z

Dear All,

I've been looking at matching the country and admin codes in the
cities1000 downloadable table with the ones in admin1, admin2 and
country tables. I've found quite a few cases where the country_code,
admin1_code, admin2_code combo doesn't match anything in the other
tables - in some cases this makes sense, where there are no admin2 and/

Re: [GeoNames] Neighbours question

2008-07-22T05:33:25Z

Hi Ian
Thanks for pointing this out. It is a simple error. We have recently
replaced the file with the country neighbourhood relation and during the
merger of two files some errors crept into it:
[link]
We will fix this and the other asymmetric country neighourhood relations.

Neighbours question

2008-07-21T19:42:54Z

I was playing around with some code to do neighbour expansion on one
of our search tools today and the question came up as to how GeoNames
calculates what a neighbouring country is? I said I thought it was by
touching boundary and pulled up the United Kingdom as an example
(which proved my point) but we found a bug while we were at it.

Re: [GeoNames] Re: Geonames and Yahoo's WoE ("Where On Earth")

2008-07-13T10:03:51Z

Hi Steve
Finding a place with given lat/lng coordinates is called 'reverse
geocoding'. GeoNames has some reverse geocoding services:
[link]
The closest point will not be enough to match GeoNames toponyms with
Yahoo toponyms. You will also have to compare feature codes and name

Re: Geonames and Yahoo's WoE ("Where On Earth")

2008-07-08T19:19:53Z

I'm currently working on an API to merge both WoE id's and geonameID.
The problems that I'm currently facing is the fact that both Yahoo!
and Geonames store different lat/lng co-ordinates for places. Example:
querying for "Vancouver" will result in the following:

GeoNames
---------------
Lat: 49.249657393

Re: From country name to ISO code

2008-07-06T19:15:07Z

Marc,

Yes, that's it! Great, exactly what I needed! Thanks a lot!

Re: [GeoNames] Re: From country name to ISO code

2008-07-06T19:09:19Z

You could use the search service to get the country code for the name in
any language:
[link]
Marc

Re: From country name to ISO code

2008-07-06T19:01:41Z

Thanks Barry!

Not exactly perfect as I don't know in advance what language is used
but a workaround that's worth looking at. Still a reverseCountryCode
API method would be nice. :)

Re: [GeoNames] From country name to ISO code

2008-07-06T18:58:03Z

Well you can look up it youself in the country CSVs
eg
[link]
Just cache the CSVs for the various languages you use, looking up in
those relatively small CSVs should be quick and easy.

From country name to ISO code

2008-07-06T18:36:38Z

Hi there,

Love the GeoNames API but I have a little problem. You need the ISO
country code for lookups, that's fine. Problem is... I don't have the
ISO codes. The address book I'm implementing in Cocoa has some random
country names (in Spanish, English or some other language) and I would
like to lookup the ISO code for a given country name, not the other

Re: [GeoNames] Re: What is the way to add geodata in wikipedia?

2008-07-05T13:43:05Z

Carlos
We have discussed a collaboration between GeoNames and Wikitravel with
Evan, one of the founders, when it was still an independent project. We
both didn't have much time then and later Wikitravel was taken over.
Wikitravel is a travel guide and not a data project. It is using a
similar license like Wikipedia and is not compatible with the more

Re: [GeoNames] Re: Postal codes from Ontario Canada

2008-07-05T13:28:37Z

Hi Umid
Thanks a lot for your offer to help. It is very much appreciated.
Unfortunately the page in question is coded in java.
Best
Marc
Umid wrote:

RE: [GeoNames] Re: Postal codes from Ontario Canada

2008-07-04T04:20:15Z

If it is php, I can help with development.
Cheers,
Umid
u...@umid.info
-----Original Message-----
Of Marc Wick
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 9:03 AM
To: geonames@googlegroups.com
Hi Sandman
The 200 rows per page limit is just to make the html pages not too
large. You are right a paging link is missing, for lack of development

Re: [GeoNames] Postal codes from Ontario Canada

2008-07-04T04:03:10Z

Hi Sandman
The 200 rows per page limit is just to make the html pages not too
large. You are right a paging link is missing, for lack of development
time and low priority.
Best
Marc
S wrote:

Postal codes from Ontario Canada

2008-07-04T00:51:47Z

Hello,
I noticed that the list of postal codes from Ontario, Canada is
not complete:

[link]

There are more than 200 postal codes in the province of Ontario.
Is the max limit of 200 done on purpose?

Thanks,
Sandman