Returning wrong country?

[Alex]

I'm passing { latitude: 51.5305516, longitude: 0.0051629 } into geocoder.lookUp, it takes about 10 seconds to return any data (this is even after the first run when the cache has finished), and the result is:

{
        "geoNameId": "6640087",
        "name": "Frasnes-lez-Anvaing",
        "asciiName": "Frasnes-lez-Anvaing",
        "alternateNames": "Fraine-dile-Anvegn,Fraine-dilé-Anvegn,Fran lez Anven,Fran-lez-Anven,frazn-lh-anwn,Фран лез Анвен,Фран-лез-Анвен,فرازن-له-آنون",
        "latitude": "50.69211",
        "longitude": "3.63562",
        "featureClass": "P",
        "featureCode": "PPLA4",
        "countryCode": "BE",
}

When this is a location in london

[Thomas Steiner]

Could you let me know the directory structure of your ./geonames_dump directory?

[Alex]

I deleted this directory after you asked for the structure and re-ran just to make sure, the lookups are now immediate (after the first one of course), but they are still in the wrong country.

[Thomas Steiner]

Alright, the directory structure is correct and all required data has been
loaded. The problem is the dataset itself. I checked on GeoNames directly
with your coordinates (
http://api.geonames.org/findNearestAddressJSON?lat=51.5305516&lng=0.0051629&username=demo
[replace "demo" with your username, instructions here:
http://www.geonames.org/login]) and the result is an empty object {}.
This means GeoNames doesn't cover this area. My library returns the closest
spot it finds, I think you did remove the distance field from the JSON
output, but it should be a long distance. Maybe worth adding a pull request
for a maxDistance configuration object…

[Thomas Steiner]

This seems to be working now, for http://localhost:3000/geocode?latitude=51.5305516&longitude=0.0051629, I get:

[
  [{
    "geoNameId": "2640091",
    "name": "Poplar",
    "asciiName": "Poplar",
    "alternateNames": "poplara,pwplr  lndn,پوپلر، لندن,पॉप्लर",
    "latitude": "51.51113",
    "longitude": "-0.01565",
    "featureClass": "P",
    "featureCode": "PPLA3",
    "countryCode": "GB",
    "cc2": null,
    "admin1Code": {
      "name": "England",
      "asciiName": "England",
      "geoNameId": "6269131"
    },
    "admin2Code": {
      "name": "Greater London",
      "asciiName": "Greater London",
      "geoNameId": "2648110"
    },
    "admin3Code": {
      "name": "Tower Hamlets",
      "asciiName": "Tower Hamlets",
      "geoNameId": "2635594"
    },
    "admin4Code": null,
    "population": "0",
    "elevation": null,
    "dem": "7",
    "timezone": "Europe/London",
    "modificationDate": "2011-03-03",
    "distance": 2.595661252043696
  }]
]