Title: GeoNames
Last modified: November 1, 2017

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# GeoNames

 *  [net](https://wordpress.org/support/users/krstarica/)
 * (@krstarica)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/geonames/)
 * Using GeoNames remotely seems rather slow.
 * Maybe we can query GeoNames from the local database?
 * E.g. plugin [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-geonames/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-geonames/)
   imports such data locally.

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 *  [anope](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anope/)
 * (@anope)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/geonames/#post-9648760)
 * Good idea!
 *  Plugin Author [isabel104](https://wordpress.org/support/users/isabel104/)
 * (@isabel104)
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/geonames/#post-9702886)
 * I love this idea. I have tested importing the data myself but found that it was
   much slower to search my local database. I’ll look into the WP GeoNames plugin
   as it may have a better database configuration for faster performance. Thanks
   for the suggestion.
 *  Thread Starter [net](https://wordpress.org/support/users/krstarica/)
 * (@krstarica)
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/geonames/#post-9705664)
 * Database indexes should be added for faster queries.

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 * Last reply from: [net](https://wordpress.org/support/users/krstarica/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/geonames/#post-9705664)
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