Missing oceanID

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Chris Jacobs

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Aug 16, 2024, 5:17:41 PM8/16/24
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I'm getting "unk" back for any coordinates in the ocean around Seattle (see image below).

Example request:
http://ws.geonames.net/oceanJSON?lat=48.319118&lng=-122.904548&username=[USER]&radius=2&lang=en-GB&token=[TOKEN]

{
"ocean": {
"distance": "0",
"geonameId": 0,
"name": "Unk"
}
}

This is not a problem across the border in Canada.

I have two questions:
1) Please can this be added?
2) Is it possible for me to contribute to the waterbodies data? We are using this API extensively to determine which oceans a sailing voyage took place in and do get gaps in the data quite often (I will start logging them all).

Thank you!

Screenshot 2024-08-16 at 14.13.10.png

Marc Wick

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Aug 16, 2024, 5:35:06 PM8/16/24
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Hi Chris

Sure.

1) how shall we name the attached ocean shape? At the moment it has the
name 'Unk'.

2) let's start with some sample gaps and then we can start analyzing
what is missing.

Best Regards

Marc
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Marc Wick

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Sep 10, 2024, 5:58:23 PM9/10/24
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Hi Chris

Thanks a lot.

We have updated the boundaries for the following features:

https://www.geonames.org/6957035/salish-sea.html
https://www.geonames.org/5807517/puget-sound.html
https://www.geonames.org/5798976/strait-of-juan-de-fuca.html
https://www.geonames.org/5795379/strait-of-georgia.html

There are no other ocean features with the name of Unk.

Best Regards

Marc

Chris from SailTies wrote:
> Hi Marc,
>
> The sea is the Salish Sea, however it is a body of water that is split
> into three parts:
> 1. Straight of Georgia (north inlet)
> 2. Puget Sound (southern inlet)
> 3. Straight of Juan de Fuca (the channel out to sea)
>
> See image here:
> https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5824fe76bebafb532872eb89/1613176978630-1GASGPK6B3S6IWGBVNKX/Salish-Sea-Bioregion-Reference-Map-8x11-1.png
>
> <https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5824fe76bebafb532872eb89/1613176978630-1GASGPK6B3S6IWGBVNKX/Salish-Sea-Bioregion-Reference-Map-8x11-1.png>
> <https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5824fe76bebafb532872eb89/1613176978630-1GASGPK6B3S6IWGBVNKX/Salish-Sea-Bioregion-Reference-Map-8x11-1.png>
>
> Please could you update the water bodies to reflect that?
>
> I’m not sure what the water bodies are called on the Canadian side of
> the border (your red area is just the US oceans), but if possible please
> can you update those as well to match the image?
>
> It would be great to get the geonameID once that is done.
>
> Out of interest - are there any other oceans named “Unk”?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
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Chris Jacobs

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Sep 11, 2024, 7:09:34 PM9/11/24
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Hi Marc,

That’s great - thank you!

Chris
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