unique key to geonames database

[Hakan Tandogan]

Hi,


I was just browsing the geonames database dumps for the area I'm
interested in.

Can I expect the geonames-id to be constant in the future? I'd like to
use that ID as an foreign key from my own data to the geonames tables.


Regards,
Hakan

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[Barry Hunter]

Almost certainly, its used thoughout geonames site and elsewhere as an
ID, and so I think could be considered stable.

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[Hakan Tandogan]

Thanks, I'm considering the ID as stable and have constructed my
application
with that assumption.

Another question though: I understand that geonames incorporates data
from,
among other sources, GNS (http://gnswww.nga.mil/geonames/GNS/
index.jsp).

Does anyone have experience with the stability of the GNS object ID's?


Regards,
Hakan

On Mar 9, 2:24 pm, "Barry Hunter" <barrybhun...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Almost certainly, its used thoughout geonames site and elsewhere as an
> ID, and so I think could be considered stable.
>
> On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Hakan Tandogan
>