FlatDB4GeoNames Database
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FlatDB4GeoNames Database is a set of files used by FlatDB4GeoNames.

FlatDB4GeoNames is a free software (desktop and API) released under
the GNU AGPL v3 license, which provides an easy, local and fast Java
access to GeoNames data as flat files. Source code is available
at https://gitlab.huma-num.fr/tip/flatdb4geonames

FlatDB4GeoNames Database contains two categories of files:

- some are download from GeoNames:
    - list:
        - allCountries.zip         : all countries combined in one file, see 'geoname' table for columns
        - admin1CodesASCII.txt     : ascii names of admin divisions. (beta > http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/208.page#1143)
        - admin2Codes.txt          : names for administrative subdivision 'admin2 code' (UTF8), Format : concatenated codes <tab>name <tab> asciiname <tab> geonameId
        - featureCodes.txt         : name and description for feature classes and feature codes 
    - license: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
    - GeoNames web site: http://www.geonames.org/
    - GeoNames Gazetteer extract source: http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/
    - GeoNames web site: http://www.geonames.org/

- some are generated by Flat4DBGeoNames: 
    - list:
        - id_seek.index              : index
        - seeks.index                : index
        - word_seek.index            : index
        - word_seeks.index.rejection : ignored toponyms
        - README                     : this current file
    - license: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Everyone is able to generate those index files using FlatDB4GeoNames.
Who generates the index files is free to attribute them the license of its choice.
We strongly recommend to set a Creative Commons License (see https://creativecommons.org/).

This README file is automatically generated at the same time as the index files
by FlatDB4GeoNames. So, who generates those index files and want to attribute
them another license has to edit this file.
