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We have analyzed 470M reverse geocoding calls from January 2011 and created some heat maps.</p> <figure style="width: 480px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img class=" " title="all services" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.geonames.org/img/blog/hm/allservices-s.gif" alt="" width="480" height="243" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">reverse geocoding requests in January 2011</figcaption></figure> <p>Smartphones make about half of the calls. While Android with 150M reverse geocoding calls is leading ahead of the iPhone with 100M calls, the iPhone covers a larger area.<br /> <figure style="width: 480px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img class=" " title="android usage" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.geonames.org/img/blog/hm/android-s.gif" alt="" width="480" height="250" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Android </figcaption></figure></p> <figure style="width: 480px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img class=" " title="iPhone usage" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.geonames.org/img/blog/hm/iphone-s.gif" alt="" width="480" height="257" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">iPhone</figcaption></figure> <p>Comparing Android vs iPhone we have found that Andoid is leading in Northern Europe, the United States and India. The iPhone is extremly popular on the Arabian peninsula and many megacities.</p> <figure style="width: 480px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img title="iPhone vs Android usage" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.geonames.org/img/blog/hm/android-vs-iphone-s.gif" alt="" width="480" height="232" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Android (green) vs iPhone (red)</figcaption></figure> <p>Thanks to our <a href="http://www.geonames.org/donations.html">sponsors</a>:<br /> <a href="http://www.mytrip.com/"><img class="alignnone" title="MyTrip" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.geonames.org/img/logos/mytriplogo-s.png" alt="" width="130" height="22" /></a><a href="http://www.yr.no/"><img class="alignnone" title="Yr.no" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.geonames.org/img/logos/yr-s.gif" alt="" width="73" height="22" /></a><a href="http://www.getit.me/"><img class="alignnone" title="GetIt" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.geonames.org/img/logos/getit-logo-s.png" alt="" width="46" height="22" /></a><a href="http://www.rhinocarhire.com/"><img class="alignnone" title="Rhino Car Hire" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.geonames.org/img/logos/rhino-logo-s.jpg" alt="" width="40" height="37" /></a><a href="http://www.nestoria.com/"><img class="alignnone" title="Nestoria" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.geonames.org/img/logos/nestoria_s.png" alt="" width="130" height="22" /></a><a href="http://www.moveworldwide.net/"><img class="alignnone" title="MoveWorldWide" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.geonames.org/img/logos/moveworldwide-s.png" alt="" width="79" height="22" /></a><a href="http://www.tvtrip.com/"><img class="alignnone" title="TV trip" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.geonames.org/img/logos/logo-tvtrip-s.png" alt="" width="67" height="22" /></a></p> <div class="wordads-tag" data-slot-type="belowpost" style="display: none;"></div> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-bottom small-part"> </div> </footer> </article> <article id="post-262" class="post-262 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://geonames.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/application-identification-for-free-geonames-web-services/" rel="bookmark">Application Identification for free GeoNames Web Services</a></h1> <div class="entry-meta small-part"> <span class="posted-on"><i class="fa fa-clock-o space-left-right"></i><a href="https://geonames.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/application-identification-for-free-geonames-web-services/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2011-01-28T09:59:02+00:00">January 28, 2011</time><time class="updated" datetime="2011-02-04T09:29:58+00:00">February 4, 2011</time></a></span><span class="byline"> <i class="fa fa-user space-left-right"></i><span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://geonames.wordpress.com/author/geonames/">marc</a></span></span><span class="comments-link"><i class="fa fa-comments-o space-left-right"></i><a href="https://geonames.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/application-identification-for-free-geonames-web-services/#comments">3 Comments</a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>To cope with the increasing number of smartphones <a href="http://www.geonames.org/">GeoNames</a> has to introduce an application tracking for the <strong>free <a href="http://www.geonames.org/export/web-services.html">web services</a></strong>. The current system of limiting credit usage per IP address is replaced by a system that tracks usage per application.<br /> <strong>GeoNames</strong> is now serving over 25 million requests daily, half of which originate from smartphones.</p> <figure style="width: 369px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img title="user agents" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.geonames.org/img/blog/ws-useragents.png" alt="" width="369" height="268" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">free web service user agents, January 2011</figcaption></figure> <p>The new domain <strong>api.geonames.org</strong> will now host the free web services. It requires that the mandatory parameter <strong>username=<geonames username></strong> be appended to all requests. You can register a username <a href="http://www.geonames.org/login">here</a>.<br /> The domain <strong>ws.geonames.org</strong> domain will remain operational for a grace period to allow applications to update to the new domain.<br /> We know it is a hassle to have to change the call, but the load and performance problems on the free servers have become unacceptable and need to be addressed.</p> <p>In order to improve the performance on the free servers we had to reduce the radius upper limit for the findNearbyPostalCodes and the findNearbyWikipedia services. The default radius was also reduced.</p> <p>Despite the new system we are <strong>still <a href="https://geonames.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/sponsoring-geonames/">looking</a> for <a href="http://www.geonames.org/donations.html">Sponsors</a> </strong>to help cope with the costs of running the <strong>free services</strong>. The more sponsors the more requests can be handled.</p> <p>Thanks to our <a href="http://www.geonames.org/donations.html">sponsors</a>:<br /> <a href="http://www.mytrip.com/"><img class="alignnone" title="MyTrip" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.geonames.org/img/logos/mytriplogo-s.png" alt="" width="130" height="22" /></a><a href="http://www.yr.no/"><img class="alignnone" title="Yr.no" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.geonames.org/img/logos/yr-s.gif" alt="" width="73" height="22" /></a><a href="http://www.getit.me/"><img class="alignnone" title="GetIt" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.geonames.org/img/logos/getit-logo-s.png" alt="" width="46" height="22" /></a><a href="http://www.rhinocarhire.com/"><img class="alignnone" title="Rhino Car Hire" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.geonames.org/img/logos/rhino-logo-s.jpg" alt="" width="40" height="37" /></a><a href="http://www.nestoria.com/"><img class="alignnone" title="Nestoria" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.geonames.org/img/logos/nestoria_s.png" alt="" width="130" height="22" /></a><a href="http://www.moveworldwide.net/"><img class="alignnone" title="MoveWorldWide" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.geonames.org/img/logos/moveworldwide-s.png" alt="" width="79" height="22" /></a></p> <div id="atatags-370373-67e45edd71e6c"> <script type="text/javascript"> __ATA.cmd.push(function() { __ATA.initVideoSlot('atatags-370373-67e45edd71e6c', { sectionId: '370373', format: 'inread' }); }); </script> </div> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-bottom small-part"> </div> </footer> </article> <article id="post-230" class="post-230 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://geonames.wordpress.com/2011/01/11/visualizations/" rel="bookmark">Visualizations</a></h1> <div class="entry-meta small-part"> <span class="posted-on"><i class="fa fa-clock-o space-left-right"></i><a href="https://geonames.wordpress.com/2011/01/11/visualizations/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2011-01-11T12:29:58+00:00">January 11, 2011</time></a></span><span class="byline"> <i class="fa fa-user space-left-right"></i><span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://geonames.wordpress.com/author/geonames/">marc</a></span></span><span class="comments-link"><i class="fa fa-comments-o space-left-right"></i><a href="https://geonames.wordpress.com/2011/01/11/visualizations/#respond">Leave a comment</a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p><strong>Stephen Von Worley</strong> from <a href="http://www.datapointed.net/2011/01/happy-new-year/">datapointed.net</a> has published some beautiful visualizations of the GeoNames database. Each of the 7.5-million geographic features is represented by a single dot, colored additively: blue for water, green for land, and red for manmade structures.</p> <figure style="width: 480px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://www.datapointed.net/2011/01/happy-new-year/"><img alt="US places" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.geonames.org/img/blog/place_names_us.jpg" title="visualization" width="480" height="360" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">datapointed.net</figcaption></figure> <p>Also interesting to note, besides their pure beauty, are some artifacts (for instance a <a href="http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/268.page">band in Ireland with lower feature density</a>) <a href="http://www.datapointed.net/visualizations/maps/place-names/europe/">clearly visible</a> on the visualizations. Some of them (like the US-Canadian border) are caused by different data providers (usgs vs geobase) and therefore different feature density or feature type assignment. Others are caused by the data entry process itself. A lot of GeoNames data is coming from paper maps and you can see in some areas the form of the original maps used as data source.</p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-bottom small-part"> </div> </footer> </article> <article id="post-207" class="post-207 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://geonames.wordpress.com/2010/12/20/curacao-sint-maarten-bonaire-saint-eustatius-saba/" rel="bookmark">New Countries: Curaçao, Sint Maarten and “Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba”</a></h1> <div class="entry-meta small-part"> <span class="posted-on"><i class="fa fa-clock-o space-left-right"></i><a href="https://geonames.wordpress.com/2010/12/20/curacao-sint-maarten-bonaire-saint-eustatius-saba/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2010-12-20T16:44:16+00:00">December 20, 2010</time><time class="updated" datetime="2011-10-01T17:22:39+00:00">October 1, 2011</time></a></span><span class="byline"> <i class="fa fa-user space-left-right"></i><span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://geonames.wordpress.com/author/geonames/">marc</a></span></span><span class="comments-link"><i class="fa fa-comments-o space-left-right"></i><a href="https://geonames.wordpress.com/2010/12/20/curacao-sint-maarten-bonaire-saint-eustatius-saba/#comments">8 Comments</a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p><a href="http://www.geonames.org/7626836/land-curacao.html"><img class="alignnone" title="Curacao" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.geonames.org/flags/l/cw.gif" alt="" width="81" height="54" /></a><a href="http://www.geonames.org/7609695/land-sint-maarten.html"><img class="alignnone" title="Sint Maarten" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.geonames.org/flags/l/sx.gif" alt="" width="81" height="54" /></a><a href="http://www.geonames.org/7626844/bonaire-saint-eustatius-and-saba.html"><img class="alignnone" title="Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.geonames.org/flags/l/bq.gif" alt="" width="81" height="54" /></a><a href="https://zoek.officielebekendmakingen.nl/stb-2010-387.html"><img class="alignnone" title="Netherlands Antilles (dissolved in Oct 2010)" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.geonames.org/flags/l/an.gif" alt="" width="81" height="54" /></a></p> <p>Three new countries came into being after the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Netherlands_Antilles">dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles</a> in October 2010. <a title="Curaçao" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cura%C3%A7ao">Curaçao</a> and <a title="Sint Maarten" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten">Sint Maarten</a> became countries within the Kingdom of the Netherlands whereas <a title="Bonaire" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonaire">Bonaire</a>, <a title="Saba" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saba">Saba</a>, and <a title="Sint Eustatius" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Eustatius">Sint Eustatius</a> became <em>special municipalities</em> of the Netherlands proper. ISO assigned the code BQ to the three <strong>BES islands, </strong>which results in the following table:<strong><br /> </strong></p> <table> <tbody> <tr> <th></th> <th>ISO2</th> <th>ISO3</th> <th>ISO#</th> <th>FIPS</th> <th>CURR</th> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="http://www.geonames.org/7626844/bonaire-saint-eustatius-and-saba.html">Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba</a></td> <td>BQ</td> <td>BES</td> <td>535</td> <td>NL</td> <td>USD</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="http://www.geonames.org/7626836/land-curacao.html">Curaçao</a></td> <td>CW</td> <td>CUW</td> <td>531</td> <td>UC</td> <td>ANG/CMG</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="http://www.geonames.org/7609695/land-sint-maarten.html">Sint Maarten</a></td> <td>SX</td> <td>SXM</td> <td>534</td> <td>NN</td> <td>ANG/CMG</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>The island of <a href="http://www.geonames.org/3578421/saint-martin.html">Saint Martin</a> is divided into the French northern part (MF) and the Dutch southern part (SX). The French northern part <a href="https://geonames.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/new-countries-saint-martin-saint-barthelemy/">seceded from Guadeloupe in 2007</a>.</p> <p>Note: The newly assigned ISO code ‘BQ’ may cause some issues as it was already in use in the past. Till 1979 it referred to the British Antarctic Territory (codes BQ, ATB) before it was merged with Antarctica (AQ).</p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-bottom small-part"> </div> </footer> </article> <article id="post-201" class="post-201 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-semanticweb"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://geonames.wordpress.com/2010/09/29/geonames-ontology-2-2/" rel="bookmark">GeoNames Ontology 2.2</a></h1> <div class="entry-meta small-part"> <span class="posted-on"><i class="fa fa-clock-o space-left-right"></i><a href="https://geonames.wordpress.com/2010/09/29/geonames-ontology-2-2/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2010-09-29T07:04:55+00:00">September 29, 2010</time><time class="updated" datetime="2010-11-04T14:35:45+00:00">November 4, 2010</time></a></span><span class="byline"> <i class="fa fa-user space-left-right"></i><span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://geonames.wordpress.com/author/geonames/">marc</a></span></span><span class="comments-link"><i class="fa fa-comments-o space-left-right"></i><a href="https://geonames.wordpress.com/2010/09/29/geonames-ontology-2-2/#comments">4 Comments</a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p><a href="http://www.geonames.org/ontology/ontology_v2.2.1.rdf">Version 2.2.1</a> of the <a href="http://www.geonames.org/ontology/documentation.html">GeoNames Ontology</a> has been released. Navigation within the administrative hierarchy has been made easier with the addition of the GeoNames URIs for the parentCountry and the parentADM(1-4) divisions. The proprietary names are now subproperties of the standard rdfs:label and skos:altLabel.</p> <p>The properties ‘nearby’ and ‘neighbour’ have been implemented inline within the feature document for the <a href="http://www.geonames.org/products/premium-data.html">Premium Data Subscription</a>.</p> <p>Changes:</p> <ul> <li>add and use ‘gn’ namespace gn=”<a href="http://www.geonames.org/ontology#&#8221" rel="nofollow">http://www.geonames.org/ontology#&#8221</a>; for GeoNames Ontology properties</li> <li>add namespace rdfs=”<a href="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#&#8221" rel="nofollow">http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#&#8221</a>;</li> <li>add new property rdfs:isDefinedBy</li> <li>change proprietary property gn:name to be subproperty of rdfs:label</li> <li>change proprietary property gn:alternateName to be subproperty of skos:altLabel</li> <li>new gn:officialName for alternate names with ‘isPreferred’ flag</li> <li>new gn:shortName for alternate names with ‘isShort’ flag</li> <li>new parentCountry</li> <li>new parentADM(1-4)</li> <li>implemented ‘nearby’ (within the document, only available with the <a href="http://www.geonames.org/products/premium-data.html">Premium Data Subscription</a>)</li> <li>implemented ‘neighbour’ (within the document, only available with the <a href="http://www.geonames.org/products/premium-data.html">Premium Data Subscription</a>)</li> </ul> <p>7. Oct Update: The current version is 2.2.1 and fixes some issues with name properties in v2.2. Version 2.2 is deprecated.</p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-bottom small-part"> </div> </footer> </article> <article id="post-70" class="post-70 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://geonames.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/premium-dump/" rel="bookmark">Premium Data Subscription</a></h1> <div class="entry-meta small-part"> <span class="posted-on"><i class="fa fa-clock-o space-left-right"></i><a href="https://geonames.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/premium-dump/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2010-09-13T06:48:24+00:00">September 13, 2010</time><time class="updated" datetime="2010-09-29T07:06:51+00:00">September 29, 2010</time></a></span><span class="byline"> <i class="fa fa-user space-left-right"></i><span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://geonames.wordpress.com/author/geonames/">marc</a></span></span><span class="comments-link"><i class="fa fa-comments-o space-left-right"></i><a href="https://geonames.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/premium-dump/#respond">Leave a comment</a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>GeoNames is launching a <a href="http://www.geonames.org/products/premium-data.html">Premium Data Subscription</a> as a quality offering for professional users. The <a href="http://www.geonames.org/products/premium-data.html">Premium Data</a> is released monthly on an annual subscription basis. The first release ‘September 2010’ is now available.</p> <p>Two approaches are used to find and eliminate errors and inconsistencies. On the one hand all modifications are monitored and sorted by relevance. All relevant modifications are verified and confirmed by a member of the GeoNames team, on the other hand over a hundred consistency checks have been implemented to spot quality problems.<br /> The <a href="http://www.geonames.org/products/premium-data.html">Premium Data</a> also includes release notes, documentation and additional data files. It is available in csv and rdf format.</p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-bottom small-part"> </div> </footer> </article> <article id="post-184" class="post-184 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://geonames.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/sponsoring-geonames/" rel="bookmark">Sponsoring GeoNames</a></h1> <div class="entry-meta small-part"> <span class="posted-on"><i class="fa fa-clock-o space-left-right"></i><a href="https://geonames.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/sponsoring-geonames/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2010-08-30T10:07:49+00:00">August 30, 2010</time></a></span><span class="byline"> <i class="fa fa-user space-left-right"></i><span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://geonames.wordpress.com/author/geonames/">marc</a></span></span><span class="comments-link"><i class="fa fa-comments-o space-left-right"></i><a href="https://geonames.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/sponsoring-geonames/#comments">2 Comments</a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>G<a href="http://www.yr.no"><img class="alignright" title="yr" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.geonames.org/img/logos/yr.gif" alt="yr" width="112" height="28" /></a>eoNames is looking for sponsors as the cost for servers and bandwidth is increasing. We had got an additional server for the download/dump and we had to reduce the <a href="http://www.geonames.org/export/#terms">max number of allowed credits</a> on the free services to cope with the growing number of requests.</p> <p>GeoNames Sponsors are listed on the high ranking <a href="http://www.geonames.org/donations.html">donation page</a> with logo and link.</p> <p>Benefits for Sponsors:</p> <ul> <li>Logo and link on <a href="http://www.geonames.org/donations.html">sponsors/donation</a> page</li> <li>Helps cover costs for running the project</li> <li>Ensures the sustainability and health of the project.</li> <li>Provide funding to improve consistency, fix errors and add missing data</li> </ul> <p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.mytrip.com"><img class="aligncenter" title="MyTrip" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.geonames.org/img/logos/mytriplogo.jpg" alt="MyTrip" width="234" height="39" /></a></p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-bottom small-part"> </div> </footer> </article> <article id="post-153" class="post-153 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://geonames.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/uk-open-public-data/" rel="bookmark">UK open public data</a></h1> <div class="entry-meta small-part"> <span class="posted-on"><i class="fa fa-clock-o space-left-right"></i><a href="https://geonames.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/uk-open-public-data/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2010-04-19T14:39:50+00:00">April 19, 2010</time><time class="updated" datetime="2010-04-21T04:25:40+00:00">April 21, 2010</time></a></span><span class="byline"> <i class="fa fa-user space-left-right"></i><span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://geonames.wordpress.com/author/geonames/">marc</a></span></span><span class="comments-link"><i class="fa fa-comments-o space-left-right"></i><a href="https://geonames.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/uk-open-public-data/#comments">8 Comments</a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p><a href="http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/"><img class="aligncenter" title="os opendata logo" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.geonames.org/img/blog/uk_os_opendata_logo.png" alt="" width="397" height="59" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/">Ordnance Survey</a>, the British national mapping agency, has <a href="http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/media/news/2010/April/OpenData.html">released open data</a> at the <a href="http://blog.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/2010/04/os-opendata-goes-live/">beginning of this month</a>. This is a 180 degree change for Britain. It used to have one of the most restrictive public data policies and hardly any official geo data was available. The new British open data policy is one of the most liberal policies worldwide and we can hope that other countries, in particular in Europe, will also understand the importance of unrestricted access to public data and adopt similar open policies.</p> <p>The data is not only called ‘open’ it really is open. Unlike other ‘open data’ projects that use unopen share-alike licenses, the <a href="http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/">OS OpenData</a> is available under a so called ‘<a href="http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/licence/index.html">OS OpenData License</a>‘, which is aligned and interoperable with the <em>creative commons attribution license</em>.</p> <p>Of interest for GeoNames are several datasets:</p> <ul> <li>1.7 million postal codes (code-point)</li> <li>1:50’000 Gazetteer (260’000 toponyms)</li> <li>admin boundaries</li> </ul> <p>It will take some time and work till we can make optimal use of the data. The existing ‘outcode’ based postal codes have already been replaced with the new data. On the free ws.geonames.org server the postal code webservices (reverse and search) are now returning the full 1.6 million postalcodes. The dataset does not include postal codes for NIR, IM, GY and JE. For those regions we continue using the previous data.</p> <p>The postal code dump directory now contains two files for GB, the default file with the outcodes and an additional file with the full postal codes. It is not yet clear whether we should continue with the outcodes or replace them entirely with the full codes. What do you think? Please comment your ideas and requirements below.</p> <p>In order to use the admin boundaries we will have to clean up the existing admin divisions and align them with the <a href="https://geonames.wordpress.com/2007/04/11/ordnance-survey-administrative-divisons/">Ordnance Survey divisions</a>.</p> <p>The gazetteer unfortunately only has a very high level ‘feature code’ and for the majority of the toponyms the feature code is missing entirely (X).</p> <p><code> fcode | count<br /> -------+--------<br /> X | 128662 (all other features)<br /> O | 41228 (other)<br /> FM | 34723 (Farm)<br /> W | 24425 (Water)<br /> H | 14524 (Hill or mountain)<br /> F | 8708 (Forest or wood)<br /> A | 5252 (antiquity non-roman)<br /> T | 1259 (town)<br /> R | 237 (roman antiquity)<br /> C | 62 (city)<br /> </code></p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-bottom small-part"> </div> </footer> </article> <article id="post-147" class="post-147 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://geonames.wordpress.com/2010/03/16/ddos-part-ii/" rel="bookmark">DDOS part II</a></h1> <div class="entry-meta small-part"> <span class="posted-on"><i class="fa fa-clock-o space-left-right"></i><a href="https://geonames.wordpress.com/2010/03/16/ddos-part-ii/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2010-03-16T19:55:34+00:00">March 16, 2010</time><time class="updated" datetime="2010-03-18T05:07:26+00:00">March 18, 2010</time></a></span><span class="byline"> <i class="fa fa-user space-left-right"></i><span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://geonames.wordpress.com/author/geonames/">marc</a></span></span><span class="comments-link"><i class="fa fa-comments-o space-left-right"></i><a href="https://geonames.wordpress.com/2010/03/16/ddos-part-ii/#comments">13 Comments</a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>The free web services are timing out at the hour precisely for a short moment of some seconds. The reason is a widget that calls the services <strong>timezoneJSON</strong> and <strong>findNearByWeatherJSON </strong>always at exactly the full hour from a large number of ip addresses. The sudden spike in requests is causing many other requests to timeout. Around a year ago the free services were suffering from the <a href="https://geonames.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/what-to-do-against-ddos-effects/">effects of an iphone application</a> that has become very popular and was using some geonames web services.</p> <p>Some hours ago we have changed the service to throw an exception hoping that the developer of the widget will see that the application no longer works and change the behavior of the application. It is not very useful if a distributed application running on a huge number of clients is calling the same server at the very same instance.</p> <p>The exception is thrown on the domain <em>ws.geonames.org</em> for requests of the two JSON services and if no parameter <strong>username</strong> is present. If you happen to be using the service, just add the parameter username=<<a href="http://www.geonames.org/login/">your geonames username</a>> avoid the exception. Those using a ‘secret’ domain name are not affected. You can create an account <a href="http://www.geonames.org/login/">here</a>.</p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-bottom small-part"> </div> </footer> </article> <article id="post-128" class="post-128 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://geonames.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/xk-country-code-for-kosovo/" rel="bookmark">‘XK’ country code for Kosovo</a></h1> <div class="entry-meta small-part"> <span class="posted-on"><i class="fa fa-clock-o space-left-right"></i><a href="https://geonames.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/xk-country-code-for-kosovo/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2010-03-08T05:43:16+00:00">March 8, 2010</time></a></span><span class="byline"> <i class="fa fa-user space-left-right"></i><span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://geonames.wordpress.com/author/geonames/">marc</a></span></span><span class="comments-link"><i class="fa fa-comments-o space-left-right"></i><a href="https://geonames.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/xk-country-code-for-kosovo/#comments">11 Comments</a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p><img class="alignleft" title="Kosovo Coat of Arms " src="https://i0.wp.com/www.geonames.org/img/blog/Kosovo.svg.png" alt="" width="110" height="122" />Some of you have already noticed that we are now using ”<strong>XK</strong>‘ as temporary country code for Kosovo. While the US standards body ‘FIPS’ has found it worthwhile to assign a country code to Kosovo (<a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/kv.html">KV</a>), the <a href="http://www.iso.org/iso/english_country_names_and_code_elements">International Organization for Standardization</a>, ISO, has yet to assign a code to the former Serbian province. The ISO country code standard 3166 has a couple of unused codes that can be used for <a href="http://www.iso.org/iso/customizing_iso_3166-1.htm#user-assigned-code-elements">user specific elements</a>: “<em>If users need code elements to represent country names not included in this part of ISO 3166, the series of letters AA, QM to QZ, XA to XZ, and ZZ, and the series AAA to AAZ, QMA to QZZ, XAA to XZZ, and ZZA to ZZZ respectively and the series of numbers 900 to 999 are available.</em>”</p> <p>The <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/budget/inforeuro/index.cfm?fuseaction=about&Language=en">European Commission</a> and <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=kosovo+XK&start=10&sa=N">many other organisations</a> (<a href="http://www.bundesbank.de/download/meldewesen/aussenwirtschaft/schluessel/laenderverzeichnis.pdf">Deutsche Bundesbank</a>, <a href="http://www.ezv.admin.ch/pdf_linker.php?doc=Tares_Laenderverzeichnis">Switzerland</a>) are using ‘<strong>XK</strong>‘ as a temporary country code for Kosovo till ISO officially assigns a code.</p> <p>GeoNames will switch to the official ISO code as soon as it has been released. 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