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Holding and using Romanised names with Diacritics
I have two True type font files (Permanent Committee on Geographical Names) PCGNA.TTF AND PCGNTN.TTF.
The romanised diacritics are well read in MS excel.
But when I convert this excel in shp or pgdb ...
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Geometry column naming convention - 'geom' or 'the_geom'?
I'm starting my first PostGIS project, and in various books and tutorials I've seen the geometry column labelled either 'geom' or 'the_geom'. Is one more conventional than the other?
Furthermore, is ...
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tools for sorting/filtering based on map state
Im about to embark on a project that list restaurants on a map. Id be grateful to find out what the best tools for the job are?
The restaurants will be in a list beneath a map. The list will be ...
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How to display places names when using Quantum GIS and shapefiles?
I am new to the world of geo systems. What I would like to do is displaying some information on a map for given regions.
I downloaded shape files from cloud made web site and load layers using ...
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Why does GeoNames say there are only 73 parks in Mexico?
I did this GeoNames query
http://api.geonames.org/search?featureCode=PRK&username=genadinik&country=MX&style=full&maxRows=10
and it says there are only 73 parks in all of Mexico. Am ...
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Is there any way to tell whether a park from GeoNames is small or big?
I have this query for parks in Alabama for example:
http://api.geonames.org/search?featureCode=PRK&username=genadinik&country=US&style=full&adminCode1=AL&maxRows=100
But it ...
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How to tell if a country has states and what the state codes are
With the help of this community I understood how to find country codes and query geoNames data based on that.
What I am stuck on now is understanding how to break things down by state where needed.
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Trying to get parks in country named Maldives
http://api.geonames.org/search?featureCode=PRK&username=genadinik&country=MA&style=full&maxRows=1000
But for some reason I get two parks from Middle Eastern countries. Any idea what ...
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How to get parks in American Samoa from GeoNames
I have this query which does not return anything:
http://api.geonames.org/search?featureCode=PRK&username=genadinik&country=US&style=full&adminCode1=AS&maxRows=1000
Should I ...
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Difference between name and toponym name?
When I query geoNames for its data, it typically returns the place name in two ways:
1) name and 2) toponymName
What is the difference between them?
Thanks!
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Geonames querying for parks in Puerto Rico or US Virgin Islands
I thought these were US-related entities.
When I make this kind of a query to geoNames, I get nothing back.
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Getting what seems to be incorrect data from GeoNames
I have a hiking website. I am trying to query for parks big and small around the world where people could potentially go walking or hiking.
I was trying to use the GeoNames data and was using query ...
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Why is the geonames not loading?
I want to import a geonames file. I downloaded the geonames .txt file from http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/
I used:
v.in.geonames input=PH.txt output=ph
but it displayed ...
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Getting all populated places per state when number of places over 6000
I am able to query for the number of places. The problem becomes when there are over 6000 places, the system gives me an error message that the requested start row is too big.
Here is an example of ...
