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Commands for fetching incremental updates
GeoNames builds two files each day, modifications-$date.txt
and deletes-$date.txt
, where $date is the previous day. This allows for incremental updates without having to rebuild the entire table.
Having commands that download/store those text files in the meta/geonames
directory, as well as separately applying those stored updates incrementally (and delete when applied, perhaps?) would be wonderful for this purpose.
Additionally, with #3, being able to specify feature types would help ensure that no attempts to update or add unneeded (or non-existent) data are made.