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 There is an import_geonames() function in S3GIS which downloads/unzips the country file (a TAB-separated list) from http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/
 It should be run for the different level sof hierarchy that you wish to import (generally just the lowest level as Geonames just has Point data, so it's best to use other sources for the Polygons 1st, that way the Geonames importer can locate these Points within the correct Polygons of the hierarchy)
+It should be run for the different levels of hierarchy that you wish to import (generally just the lowest level as Geonames just has Point data, so it's best to use other sources for the Polygons 1st, that way the Geonames importer can locate these Points within the correct Polygons of the hierarchy)
 NB It takes some time to do this import! Pakistan imports 95000 locations!
+Update: Geonames schema 2.2 supports parentADM(1-4): http://geonames.wordpress.com/2010/09/29/geonames-ontology-2-2/
+ * will be good for when we only have hierarchy, not polygons
+ * need to check whether much data has this populated though.
 Python 2.5 doesn't support Zipfile.extract() & Zipfile.read() isn't unicode-safe. Until this is fixed, download the file manually 1st: