To be honest I'm not too sure either. Logically it should be the same result since it's the same database at GeoNames. geopy is a great little library but clearly something has gone wrong in how it connects to GeoNames. Either that or they GeoNames returns results is different depending on how to approach them.
That Yahoo pipe uses GeoNames too. Just different wrapping.
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Sorry, I'm looking at this and obviously missing something. What's the back-end difference between geonames_json and geonames?
Also FYU: Yahoo has been doing stuff in this space also (e.g. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=AvAwHoPz3BGPOZZixJtC8g). It would be interesting to see how this stacks up.
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To be honest I'm not too sure either. Logically it should be the same result since it's the same database at GeoNames. geopy is a great little library but clearly something has gone wrong in how it connects to GeoNames. Either that or they GeoNames returns results is different depending on how to approach them.
That Yahoo pipe uses GeoNames too. Just different wrapping.