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Geonames servers out of service ?

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achmedfsx:
The last weeks, I get a message about no connection to any Geoname servers.
So I'm missing POIs except the SIM internal VOR/NDB/airport.

What I found: http://www.geonames.org/maps/wikipedia.html ->
"This map view is currently disabled. Thanks for your understanding."

Is there anything I can do to get the landscape POIs back ?

achmedfsx:
Hmm...XPOI still doesn't show POIs other than P3D navaids and airports.
Any solution ?

achmedfsx:
Still get message about no geonames servers, no help here ?  :-[

virtuali:
I can't reproduce the problem, XPOI works normally here.

jimre6:
Achmedfsx is not experiencing this outage on his own, it seems...
For literally months now, my purchased XPOI v2.2.0 mirrors the problem Achmedfsx describes... 
It originally was fully functional, but now only indicates VOR's & Airports.   Any other selected Points of Interest are no longer produced.
The software, in my case, tries to connect to Geoname's server  api.geonames.org  for this data,  but this only creates a resulting screen banner, stating:
 "the maxRows is too big for the free service, max=500,  use the premium service for up to 2000,  trying another server"
This is then very quickly followed by another screen banner, stating:
 "XPOI - GeoNames server  ws.geonames.org  not responding, no more servers to try"

My XPOI's current settings are as follows:

[settings]
geoNamesServers = ws.geonames.org
enableFacilities = 1
titlesDistance = 100
enableWikipedia = 0
enableGeonames = 1
geoNamesServersApi = api.geonames.org
inexactPois = 1
floatingFacilities = 1
wikiLanguage = en
whichFacilities = 3

[featureClasses]
H = 0 0 STM GLCR
L = 2 0 PRT
P = 2 0 PPLA LCTY PPL
S = 2 0 AIRP
U = 0 1
T = 0 1 BCH MT HLL ISL CAPE PLN
V = 0 1 FRST

Assured to hear that your's still functions (unable to reproduce the problem) but something definitely has changed in XPOI's connectivity to geoname's operational free servers !!
Can you possibly liaise with Geonames.org  to confirm what functioning servers to target with this software... ??   and advise us of what's required to restore XPOI's functionality...
It's a fabulous FSX sim addition, and at the moment, it's very much missed...
Hope you can resolve this for us.

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