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23rd January 2008 - Link Blog

GeoNames: missing countries. United Arab Emirates and a few other countries are missing from the GeoNames XML set I used to seed Django People. I’ve added UAE by hand; I’ll add the others as soon as I have time.

Posted 23rd January 2008 at 10:45 am

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