Geonames.org gets a network link
I often use Geonames.org to find the precise location of obscure places in Google Earth, doing a search and then linking back from the results to Google Earth or Tagzania. If you know the approximate location, however, you can now do much better: A recently introduced Geonames network link will show you everything in its database for your particular view. It's the perfect triangulation/confirmation tool for the information available in Google Earth's Google Earth Community layers.
In other words, this network link is a keeper, especially if you need to find that out-of-the-way wadi or minor mountain peak.
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Using the network link, I systematically get the "URL returned error: 500" error. Is this happening to everyone else?
Posted by: satri at 14:30 UTC, July 31, 2006
It's working fine for me still.
Posted by: Stefan at 20:27 UTC, July 31, 2006
Thanks Stefan, I don't get the errors from geonames.org anymore.
Posted by: satri at 15:05 UTC, August 01, 2006
Could you please link the main network link and not the system area? WE may make changes to the system area that will not show up to your users.
Such as the ability to add/edit features.
~Thomas
Posted by: Thomas at 23:22 UTC, August 05, 2006
The link is to the network link, so changes should appear automatically. In any case, here is the entire thread on Google Earth Community.
Posted by: Stefan at 15:33 UTC, August 06, 2006
http://www.geonames.org/kml/feature-networklink.kml
that's the link to the kml file directly from geonames.org because the thread seems to be no longer accessible
Posted by: azzimd at 1:41 UTC, October 23, 2006
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