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geonames

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Editorial note

We are currently using Postgis + geonames (the same DB used by this project) and it works very well.

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Quick take

(or GeoNames.org) a user-editable geographical database available and accessible through various web services, under a Creative Commons attribution license.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of geonames gathered in one view.

N

(or GeoNames.org) a user-editable geographical database available and accessible through various web services, under a Creative Commons attribution license.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for geonames.

N

(or GeoNames.org) a user-editable geographical database available and accessible through various web services, under a Creative Commons attribution license.

Example sentences

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We are currently using Postgis + geonames (the same DB used by this project) and it works very well.

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At the moment, this only looks at cities with a population > 1000 obtained from GeoNames.

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GeoNames is pretty messy and inaccurate, and the copyright status has never been cleared up.

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We have use open data: Census, OSM, geonames...

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GeoNames includes postal code data for many countries.

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I really like the Geonames rss to georss geocoding API.

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What makes you think we will not be working with and improving nominatim, or many of the other good open tools and datasets (for example geonames to mention just one of several)?

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We are for example able to search all cities from Geonames (> 3M) on a old iPhone 3GS in less than 50ms (including prefix search & typo tolerance) with only 1KB or RAM and a flash disk.

Quote examples

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{"error":"Zip Code not found!"} Also, whats wrong with geonames or google geocoding apis?

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use geonames in a sentence?

We are currently using Postgis + geonames (the same DB used by this project) and it works very well.

What does geonames mean?

(or GeoNames.org) a user-editable geographical database available and accessible through various web services, under a Creative Commons attribution license.

What part of speech is geonames?

geonames is commonly used as N.