GeoNames Google Group

Pissible diplicates

carlon.l...@gmail.com (Luca Carlon) — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:34:13 UT

Hi! I'm not sure whether the group is the correct place to signal these,
but I found these places which seems to be referring to the same place:
4177679 -> Wekiva Springs seems similar to 4177671
6943007 -> Baywood seems similar to 5108179
7506758 -> BloomingtonMN seems similar to 5018739
Can someone confirm if those are the same place or not?

TilakNagar and Tilak Nagar

carlon.l...@gmail.com (Luca Carlon) — Tue, 14 May 2013 11:34:53 UT

Hi! I noticed these two places but I'm not sure what the difference is
between the two:
geonameId: 6691815 (12.92824, 77.59399)
and
geonameId: 6695473 (12.92725, 77.59534)
one is named TilakNagar and the other is named Tilak Nagar. Are these
really two different places?
Thanks!
Luca

Christmas Island location

carlon.l...@gmail.com (Luca Carlon) — Tue, 07 May 2013 10:57:02 UT

Hi! I noticed that Christmas Island is reported to be in Asia. For instance
from geoname ID 2078127:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <geoname>
<toponymName>Flying Fish Cove</toponymName> <name>Flying Fish Cove</name>
<lat>-10.42172</lat> <lng>105.67912</lng> <geonameId>2078127</geonameId>

Appearantly incoherent values returned by queries

carlon.l...@gmail.com (Luca Carlon) — Mon, 06 May 2013 13:36:03 UT

Hi! While trying out the service I noticed this, but I can't get why it is
happening. I tried to retrieve the 5 nearest places to (45.5636111,
12.1886111). I tried this first query:
[link]
which returns as the fifth result "Cappella", 3.45617Km away. Then I

Wikipedia Loads

ed.summ...@gmail.com (Ed Summers) — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:06:10 UT

Hi All,
dumps are loaded into Geonames.
//Ed

Username for GeoNames Postal Code Webservice

alex.mallin...@gmail.com (Alex Mallinger) — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:06:17 UT

Where can I get a username for the postal code webservice?
(not the demo username)

greets.

Neighbouring countries

denis.arn...@gmail.com (Denis Arnaud) — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:38:48 UT

Hi,
in the exported file giving the details of the countries (
[link]), there is a field
giving the neighbours. For instance, Ireland (IE) is the only neighbour of
Great Britain (GB). Well, some could argue that, among others, France,
Netherlands and Germany are also neighbours of GB. I guess that "neighbour"

GeoNames to Directional Region

cerdos6...@gmail.com (Chris) — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:59:22 UT

Hello,

I was wondering if there was a way to find the directional region where a
county is located? For example, I would like to place "Miami-Dade County"
in "Southeastern Florida" or "Bay County" in "Florida Panhandle". I can't
find any feeds that will let me associate county (or even city) to a region

Difference between API and WS

mortez...@gmail.com (Morteza Karimzadeh) — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:33:17 UT

Hi,
What is the difference between [link] and
[link]
It seems that the ws is the deprecated API (or am I mistaken?)
What about the results in terms of accuracy?

Empty isolanguage field in alternateNames.txt

carlon.l...@gmail.com (Luca Carlon) — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:05:53 UT

Hi! I notice that in the alternateNames.txt file the field isolanguage is
often empty. In those cases, what should I assume the isolanguage field to
mean? For instance:

291257 476462 Vas’kova

What is the language code of this entry?
Thanks.

Luca

Weather stations getting mixed up when using findNearByWeatherJSON?

j...@joekrill.com (Joe Krill) — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:22:11 UT

Hello,
Hopefully this is the correct place for this. I wasn't sure if I should use
this or the forum.
If I call findNearByWeatherJSON using latitude 40.8 and longitude -73.2,
I'm getting some incorrect/mixed up results. This location is in Commack,
NY, US. However, it appears to be giving me weather for Barnwell Regional

Names of administrative level 1/2 POR (points of reference)

denis.arn...@gmail.com (Denis Arnaud) — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 09:23:35 UT

Hi,
AFAIU, the administrative level 1 (resp. 2) POR (points of reference) are
extracted from the Geonames database, dumped and made available every day
in the [link] (resp.
[link]) file. That is

Transcarpathia (Zakarpatt'ya oblast) Ukraine questions

marshallkatz1...@gmail.com (Marshall) — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:28:42 UT

Background: In 1991, Ukraine gained its independence from Russia and since
that time, the spelling of the cities, towns and villages of Ukraine has
been changing from the Russian spelling to the Ukranian spelling.
This affects the "Latin" character spelling as well.

My area of interest is of Transcarpathia (Zakarpatt'ya oblast).

inconsistent results with "www.geonames.org/advanced-search.html?q..." and "api.geonames.org/findNearbyPlaceName" ...

lesscaf...@googlemail.com — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:15:11 UT

Hello
doing the queries for looking up the populated place "Bornum" with:
-
[link]
*found!*
- [link]
*found (corresponding postal code)!*

Canadian postal code regex

liam.morl...@gmail.com (Liam Morland) — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:38:41 UT

In this file:
[link]
the Canadian postal code regex is shown as:
^([a-zA-Z]\d[a-zA-Z]\d[a-zA-Z] \d)$
There ought to be a space between the first three and last three
characters. This is correctly done in the postal code format: "@#@ #@#".
Some letters are not used in Canadian postal codes, so a better regex is

City Population

s.porter...@gmail.com (Stephen Porter) — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 19:41:03 UT

There is a city in Tasmania Australia named St Helens that should have a
city population of 2049 but doesn't show it. Is there a way to correct that.

API to determine Country for dependent country?

lech...@helios.uni-muenster.de (Jens Lechtenboerger) — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:35:00 UT

Dear reader,

I'm experimenting with the webservice API to cross-check address
information. I'm not sure how to interpret search results for
dependent countries. Is there a way to retrieve the "real" country
for a dependent country?

E.g., the following query URI for "Guadeloupe, France" (after adding

support

bincyjoseph...@gmail.com (Bincy Joseph) — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 08:04:27 UT

Is Geonames support https?

What is a regular way to report Spam Cities?

startupcroa...@gmail.com (sccm) — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:19:22 UT

Found Spam Place
[link]
How to delete it?

Commercial use of Geonames Data

jainprat...@gmail.com (Prateek) — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 20:44:48 UT

Hello All,
I have a question regarding making commercial use of Geonames dataset. It
is perhaps more of a legal question rather than a technical question.

Geonames by itself uses Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, which
allows commercial use after attribution.
However on the data source webpage

RDF triple count

zachary.whit...@gmail.com (Zachary Whitley) — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 02:31:28 UT

Can anyone verify that how many triples are in the latest RDF dump file
(2012-11-11)? I've tried several times to convert the file to n-triples but
only get 123121455 triples not the 156502179 that the download page
indicates there should be. (I do get the correct 8345450 features). Is
there any chance I could get the scripts used to generate the RDF? I'd be

Require secure connection

gauravt...@gmail.com (Gaurav Tpss) — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 05:51:39 UT

Hello Team,

I am using your web-service but its content are blocked on chrome as i have
installed an ssl certificae installed for my site.
Please let me know about this as chrom is the only browser on which i am
having problem

Thanks & Regards
Gaurav Bhatt

Discrepancy between the daily modifications and alternateNamesModifications file

shosta...@gmail.com (Maksym Shostak) — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:55:59 UT

For example, 8426398 (HelWin Alpha) is missing from the daily data dump for
2012-11-28 for modifications, but the GeoNameID is present in the
alternateNamesModifications. Is this a consistency issue that needs to be
resolved?
Many thanks

Invalid regex in countryInfo.txt

thomas.rosenbl...@gmail.com (Thomas Rosenblatt) — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:57:30 UT

I'v noticed that somes regex postal codes are incorrect in the
countryInfo.txt
Below is my correction of those that i encountered.
GF GUF 254 FG French Guiana Cayenne 91000 195506 SA .gf EUR Euro
594 ##### ^((97|98)3\d{2})$ fr-GF 3381670 SR,BR
US USA 840 US United States Washington 9629091 310232863 NA .us USD

Unicode characters in ascii field of admin2Codes.txt

halbka...@gmail.com (Tarak Blah) — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 10:15:08 UT

The line 1829 in admin2Codes.txt is probably wrong:

AZ.09.7669203 Xətai Rayonu Xətai Rayonu 7669203

I would change it myself but I absolutely do not know what the ascii name
is...

Matching postal code and geonameid

alex.pe...@bebabum.com (alex) — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:55:18 UT

Hello
There are any way to do the match of the postal code files and the
respective geoname id?
Thanks!

Prawet's feature code

manatsa...@gmail.com (Manatsawin Hanmongkolchai) — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 06:50:04 UT

I have found a bug in Geonames' Thailand data:
Prawet, a subdistrict administration in Bangkok, Thailand is categorized
under code PPLA2.
While the rest of Bangkok subdistricts are using code ADM2. Also, they have
"Khet" (subdistrict) prefix.
[link]
Example of other subdistricts:

mapping old (expired, removed) ids to new ones

k.and...@gmail.com (András Kardos) — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:43:28 UT

Dear All, we're a big users of Geonames, but unfortunately we employed bad
strategies in handling Geonames data, and now we have a lot of Geoaname IDs
in our database, which were removed-changed-merged since then. Is there a
service or downloadable file that contains mapping of all preexisting
Geoname IDs to current one, or a marker ststing that they should be

Reverse Geocoding with it loaded into MySQL database?

davidalanr...@gmail.com (David Roth) — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 09:12:04 UT

How is reverse geocoding done with allCountries.txt loaded into a MySQL
database?

When you search for a latitude and longitude in order to get back a country
code,
where is the data or formula(?) to specify the range of the lat/lon data
points so it
returns back the correct country code for any lat/lon searched on? Or am I

Contributing New Data (in bulk)

matt.pushcreat...@gmail.com (Matt) — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 23:32:42 UT

Hi GeoNames admins!
As a part of a client project, I've collected around 500 latitudes /
longitudes of non-government schools in New South Wales, Australia that are
not currently part of the geonames.org database. Is this data of interest
to the geonames project, and is there a straightforward way I can provide

Re: [GeoNames] Number of results in findNearbyPOIsOSM

m...@geonames.org (Marc Wick) — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 04:54:53 UT

Hi Felix

Yes there are two parameters maxRows and radius to set the desired area
and number of rows returned. They are now documented.

Best Regards

Marc

PHP: Using Lat/lon to return country code.

davidalanr...@gmail.com (David) — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 07:54:18 UT

I wasn't able to find documentation or a working PHP example to return the
country code for Lat/Lon. I wrote the following example to do this and I'd
like feedback on this please:
------------------------------ ------------------------------ ----------
$geo = new Services_GeoNames();
$countryCode = $geo->countryCode(array(

postal code-city mismatch

eike.kett...@gmail.com (ek) — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:18:32 UT

Hi,
we found today, that there is a mismatch between postal codes and its
cities (in Switzerland).
A search for CH-6423 shows a city of name "Ingenbohl". This is wrong.
"Ingenbohl" belongs to "Brunnen" and has the postal code 6440. The postal
code 6423 belongs to the city "Seewen"
6440 = Brunnen (commune <[link]>

City names in Russian

d.liand...@gmail.com (Dmitriy Liandres) — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 20:25:13 UT

Can I get all city names in Russian if I pay for preminum account?

How detect if a record is a city

egidiocapr...@gmail.com (Egidio Caprino) — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 19:34:27 UT

Hi all.
Using the search <[link]> API,
how can I detect if a record is a city and not a country, for example?

Expose ARC/Info data over a web service

be...@lucion.co.nz (Bevan Rudge) — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 06:31:19 UT

Hi there!
I am a web developer building a web app with some geo/mapping requirements
that are a bit beyond my GIS experience. I hope someone can give me some
pointers in the right direction;
1) How can I expose ARC/Info ADF data over a web service? Does Esri GIS
Server do this?
2) How difficult is it to build my own web read-only web server that takes

Hiding username in requests; making requests cachable

afoe...@googlemail.com (afoeder) — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 08:15:42 UT

Currently the limit of requests is bound to the username provided. However, when using the data source directly in web frontends, this username is easily readable and usable for other parties not being holder of the username.
This will allow malicious users to do requests with "my" username and consuming my credits.

countrySubdivision missing some points

ptomb...@gmail.com (Paul Tomblin) — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 02:03:48 UT

When I look up the following points using the countrySubdivision web
service, I don't get a country returned. Eyeballing them in Google Maps
makes it look like they should all be in Abu Dubai.
24.506722, 54.547278
24.517583, 54.604083
24.610417, 54.622306
24.53825, 54.615611
24.502583, 54.585389
wget

Timezone API

itsrekhasha...@gmail.com (Rekha) — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 03:49:32 UT

Hi,

I am looking for an API , which can provide me local time on the basis of
lat & lng or location.

May i have some details of it, if available at geonames, also that API
should be hosted over https://

Thanks

does infomation in citiesxxx of geonames conform with OSM?

listin...@gmail.com (james brooks) — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:53:46 UT

to my understanding, geonames is more focused on administrative objects
such as features like countries,province,cities and has an accurate and
up2date levels info in many different countries.
But there is such features in OSM too, I am wondering whether the two sets
of information confirm to each other?

Name of Countries in each language.

konrad.makow...@gmail.com (DeVeLo) — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 09:06:17 UT

Hi is there chance to dump infoCountry data where each country has a name
in local language? or in local languages? Or how can i create that base.
I'm using postgresql.

Unique key constraint violation: bug?

denis.arn...@gmail.com (Denis Arnaud) — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 14:09:48 UT

Hi,
while trying to add either a place or an alternate name to an existing
place, I get the errors like the following:
"error while saving: ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint
"alternatename_id_idx" Detail: Key (alternatenameid)=(xxxxxxx) already
exists."
I understand that the given key (here, the alternatename_id) has just been

I need some help from you guys~

kobeou...@gmail.com (kobe) — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:24:37 UT

Since, i started to work on SPARQL for query data from Geoname and DBpedia..
I extract the information from those dataset to display in graph..
Now I got a problem, I want to create a link with cities who spoken the
same the same language but I didnt know how to make it work..
please share me some idea..

Dump of Wikipedia-derived data

ulrich.deusc...@lau-net.de (deuscu) — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 16:31:45 UT

Hi,
it appears to me that allCountries.zip does not contain data of points
derived from Wikipedia. Is it possible to dump all Wikipedia-derived
data in a similar way as in allCountries.zip?

Thanks!

Referential integrity

lorn7...@gmail.com (Marco) — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 22:53:26 UT

Hello,
out of some of your files I built a database with relational integrity and
loaded continents, countries, and area1 codes very fine. Unfortunately the
area2 file seems to have a lot of points that do not belong to the area1
file's areas. Is that intentional, or perhaps a list of the missing points

bulk upload of locations to geonames?

mmax...@globalgiving.org (marcmaxson) — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:47:01 UT

Our organization has geocoded 700 new places in Kenya and Uganda that are
not part of the geonames.org collect. How can we import them all at once?

allCountries missing countries

dkr...@gmail.com (Danijel Kralj) — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:11:37 UT

Hi all,
I recently found out that the allCountries.zip is in fact missing a lot of
countries:
Latvia
LV.zip
Estonia
EE.zip
Romania
RO.zip
to name a few. Is this intentional? Does one need to import each country
manually to be sure?
cat allCountries.txt | grep -P "EE\t"
AR 2812 CARLOS LEMEE BUENOS AIRES B

get a country from US

arto...@gmail.com (artotal) — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:11:28 UT

Hi,
I have a script javascript for autocompletion.
I want the cities US and state, but I don't have state.
I'm trying this parameter "countrycode", my autocomplete print
"undefined"
I'm using jQeury UI autocomplete :
$('#search-city').autocomplete ({
source : function(requete, reponse){