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Subject:    [PEAR] [ANNOUNCEMENT] Services_GeoNames-0.2.3 (beta) Released.
From:       "PEAR Announce" <pear-dev () lists ! php ! net>
Date:       2009-01-23 14:25:25
Message-ID: 20090123142525.59206.qmail () pb12 ! pair ! com
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The new PEAR package Services_GeoNames-0.2.3 (beta) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
-------------
* clone the HTTP_Request2 instance instead of the reusing the same instance,
* ability to set an array of failover servers,
* better doc strings and various cosmetic changes.

Important note
==============
From http://www.geonames.org/export/ :
"We have temporarily removed the domain ws.geonames.org from the dns setting to
protect the server from exessive use by an iphone application. You can access
the server with the domain ws5.geonames.org"

So until ws.geonames.org is not restored, you'll have to do either:
<?php
require_once 'Services/GeoNames.php';

$geo = new Services_GeoNames();
$geo->url = 'http://ws5.geonames.org';
?>

or:

<?php
require_once 'Services/GeoNames.php';

$geo = new Services_GeoNames();
$geo->failoverServers[] = 'http://ws5.geonames.org';
?>

Package Info
------------
Services_GeoNames is a PHP5 interface to the various webservices offered by
the GeoNames project.

The GeoNames database contains over 8,000,000 geographical names corresponding 
to over 6,500,000 unique features. All features are categorized into one out 
of nine feature classes and further subcategorized into one out of 645 feature 
codes. Beyond names of places in various languages, data stored include 
latitude, longitude, elevation, population, administrative subdivision and 
postal codes. All coordinates use the WGS84 system (World Geodetic System 1984).

Those data are accessible free of charge through a number of Web services and 
a daily database export. The Web services include direct and reverse geocoding, 
finding places through postal codes, finding places next to a given place, and 
finding Wikipedia articles about neighbouring places.

For more information please visit:
* http://www.geonames.org
* http://www.geonames.org/export/ws-overview.html
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoNames

Related Links
-------------
Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Services_GeoNames
   Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/Services_GeoNames/download/0.2.3
    Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package/Services_GeoNames-0.2.3.tgz

Authors
-------
David Jean Louis (lead)


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