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03/03/2006 12:56:45
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How can I help ?
marc
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Question :
How can I help geonames? What can I contribute?
Answer :
We need help in various areas :
new data sources
: Check whether your country is releasing
free
geo data and let us know.
Data correction and improvement
: Many coordinates in our datasources are rounded in our datasources and therefore not exact. You can use the edit functions of geonames to correct and improve data.
If you are using geonames data on your website you can ask your users to correct errors and link back to the geonames edit page
We need help
translating
feature classes and feature codes :
As well as weather observations :
You can help adding additional countries to our postal codes geo coding service :
I your country is not yet supported you can help us
find a list of postal codes
for your country. We will then take care about geo referencing the postal codes. All we need is a list of postal codes and placenames.
metar weather parser in java
: We want to extract 'meaningful' information from the metar weather observation data.
you could also help in translating weather texts :
You can also support the project with a donation and help pay for the servers :
If you want to help just get in touch with us :
info@geonames.org
Thank you.
04/04/2006 09:26:26
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Anonymous
Above it says one can help correct the data by using the "edit" functions. I just registered and cannot see anything that would permit me to make corrections???
04/04/2006 09:42:40
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marc
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The edit functions are on top of the google maps interface.
Use the search function to find the place where you live. Then click on the small balloon on the map. A new window will open over the map and in this window you have several edit functions available. Just click on one of the menus at the bottom of that window.
With the 'edit' function you can correct elevation, population and others. With the 'alternate names' you can correct spelling and add names for this place in other languages.
With the 'move' function you can correct the location of the place.
The most recent modifications are visible here :
Marc
28/04/2006 16:38:41
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Anonymous
Hi,
I'm miserably failing to understand how can I move a populated place.
I click on its marker, the info window shows up, I click on "Move", I close the info window (it's covering the right position), I click on the right position for that city, and then nothing.
On the left pane it says
move Cox
1. point mouse to new location
2. save new coordinates
How can I "save the new coordinates"?
Thank you for a great service!
Cheers,
28/04/2006 17:23:35
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marc
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The code was broken. Thanks for letting us know about the problem.
Please try again, it is fixed now and should work.
Marc
29/04/2006 08:14:59
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Anonymous
Hi Marc,
It's working now. Thanks a lot!
Now, is there any way to change the name of an adm1?
In the gns database they have "Castilla-La Manacha" instead of "Castilla la Mancha" (extra hyphen and extra "a").
Is there any way to report such errors to your database?
29/04/2006 08:22:52
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marc
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Posting errors like this one here in the forum or in an email is fine. I will fix them. Thanks a lot.
Marc
Edit :
It is fixed now :
25/06/2006 21:17:07
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Anonymous
Hi Marc,
In the gns database they have "Cataluña" (translation to the Castilian of an official name) instead of "
Catalunya
", official name of this one country.
You can fix this error to your database?
Thank you Marc
27/06/2006 08:31:30
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marc
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It is changed :
Marc
27/06/2006 20:51:16
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Anonymous
Thank you marc !
abat sise
10/07/2006 21:13:56
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Anonymous
Marc:
In the database they have valenciana instead País Valencià:
and Islas Baleares instead of Illes Balears:
You can fix this error?
Thank you
Vicent
12/07/2006 07:28:03
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marc
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Thank you Vicent. It is fixed.
Marc
12/09/2006 18:05:52
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Dan
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Hi, I recently made (logged as zeman) couple of additions, movements and spelling corrections in and around Praha, Czechia. Although I see the changes in the list of recent changes and in the history of the places, the map does not reflect them. Even after emptying the cache and reloading. Any ideas why this might happen?
Thanks,
Dan
12/09/2006 18:59:05
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marc
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Hi Dan
It was a misconfiguration of a database connection. I am sorry about this. For load balancing some static database requests are served by an other server. Due to a misconfiguration the map view was served by the wrong server and you did not see your inserts and updates. Your changes are now also visible on the map view.
Regards
Marc
12/09/2006 19:06:33
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Dan
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Great, thank you!
23/11/2006 03:07:55
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javester
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Hey Marc,
Just wondering if you've checked
recently?
They have a couple of countries there that are not currently supported.
Happy Turkey from the U.S of A!
javester
24/11/2006 17:38:31
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marc
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Hi Javester
Thanks for the Turkey.
No, I haven't checked it. Do you think the lists are more or less complete? And do you have a particular country in mind?
Regards
Marc
02/06/2007 01:51:48
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Carey Gister
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Marc,
What about postal changes? Specifically, adding latitudes and longitudes for locations that have empty latitudes and longitudes?
Carey
05/06/2007 19:21:17
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marc
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Carey
We have started to add postal codes as alternate names with the pseudo iso language code 'post'. This makes sense if section of populated places have other names and other postal codes.
Otherwise you can send me an excel or other file and I directly update the database with it. A wiki-entry form is not yet implemented for the postal codes tables.
Marc
05/06/2007 21:11:45
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Carey Gister
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Marc,
I think the altername name solution is excellent.
Do you know when it will be implemented?
Carey
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