Postalcodes are not included in alternate names

[DeaconDesperado]

The geonames database exposes US postal codes as an alternate name with language "post".

 alternatenameid | geonameid | isolanguage |                    alternatename                    | ispreferredname | isshortname | iscolloquial | ishistoric
-----------------+-----------+-------------+-----------------------------------------------------+-----------------+-------------+--------------+------------
         2732459 |   4838652 | post        | 06460                                               |                 |             |              |
         3006455 |   4838652 | link        | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milford%2C_Connecticut |                 |             |              |
         3045158 |   4838652 | ru          | Милфорд                                             |                 |             |              |
         8220181 |   4838652 | kk          | Милфорд                                             |                 |             |              |
         8220182 |   4838652 | uk          | Мілфорд                                             |                 |             |              |
         8220183 |   4838652 | mr          | मिलफोर्ड                                             |                 |             |              |
         8220184 |   4838652 | ko          | 밀퍼드                                              |                 |             |              |
         8220185 |   4838652 | zh          | 米尔福德                                            |                 |             |              |
         8710578 |   4838652 | sr          | Милфорд                                             |                 |             |              |
        10726156 |   4838652 | post        | 06466                                               |                 |             |              |
(10 rows)

Is there a way to include this name during the index building phase?

[DeaconDesperado]

Could this be the relevant filter?

https://github.com/foursquare/twofishes/blob/master/indexer/src/main/scala/importers/geonames/AlternateNamesReader.scala#L59

[parkan]

Postcodes are parsed separately, see https://github.com/foursquare/twofishes/blob/d609e0a37a0765e9a83dc73367c33586b67af681/indexer/src/main/scala/importers/geonames/GeonamesFeature.scala#L59

[DeaconDesperado]

Thanks @parkan!

Do you perhaps know how this is exposed in the responses? I started out looking for it in names since that's how geonames saves them. Is there another key that is dedicated to the postalCodes?

[rahulpratapm]

http://demo.twofishes.net/static/geocoder.html?query=10038

As you can see here, postal codes are just like any other features. There's no dedicated key, although the way we hack ids for these features in the geonamezip namespace allows you to parse out the country and postal code pretty easily. Notice the ids field for the feature above has a single FeatureId object whose source is geonamezip and id is US-10038