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=== Download resources ===
The place completion tool can look up for you latitude/longitude, add county information (USA), ... . For some of this functionality, you must download datafiles data files of the countries you are interested in. Right now you have three options:
#Download geonames country files. You can do this [http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/ here freely]. Geonames parses fastest, so is the advised format to use
#download GNS Geonet country files (not available for usa). You can do this [ftp://ftp.nga.mil/pub/gns_data here freely with ftp].
Watch out, some of these downloads are '''VERY''' large, especially USA data. Only download what you need!If the download is a compressed zip file, you will need to extract the data file before you can use it.
<small>'''Note''': The geonames data of popular places is in English, so eg e.g. municipalities in Italy will be found, but Roma not, as this is Rome in English. To find data with these you need to search in the localised variants of the name (see below)</small>
{{man warn|Warning:|DO NOT BETA TEST WITH YOUR RESEARCH DATA. EXPORT DATA FIRST TO HAVE A BACKUP.}}