Features
Learn about GeoNames and its features.
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The GeoNames model tags all of its geolocation data with a feature class and a feature. The description for those codes is detailed on the GeoNames codes page and available for download in the featureCodes_en.txt
file. Some of the information we need is only available in text form and has to be reported manually.
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begin;drop schema if exists geoname cascade;create schema geoname;create table geoname.class(class char(1) not null primary key,description text);insert into geoname.class (class, description)values ('A', 'country, state, region,...'),('H', 'stream, lake, ...'),('L', 'parks,area, ...'),('P', 'city, village,...'),('R', 'road, railroad '),('S', 'spot, building, farm'),('T', 'mountain,hill,rock,... '),('U', 'undersea'),('V', 'forest,heath,...');create table geoname.feature(class char(1) not null references geoname.class(class),feature text not null,description text,comment text,primary key(class, feature));insert into geoname.featureselect substring(code from 1 for 1) as class,substring(code from 3) as feature,description,commentfrom raw.featurewhere feature.code <> 'null';commit;
As we see in this file, we have to deal with an explicit 'null'
entry: ...