# Reconciliation with Geonames not working

**URL:** <https://forum.openrefine.org/t/reconciliation-with-geonames-not-working/630>\
**Category:** Support and Helpdesk\
**Tags:** reconciliation\
**Created:** [March 16, 2023, 1:12pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/reconciliation-with-geonames-not-working/630 "2023-03-16T13:12:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![J\_Meyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9bd4f/32.png) [@J\_Meyer](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/J_Meyer)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2023, 1:12pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/reconciliation-with-geonames-not-working/630/1 "2023-03-16T13:12:46Z")

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Hello everyone,  
I need to compare my museums data against a normed Vocabulary. Most of the reconciliation services I tried to use work perfectly, but I always get an error trying to use the Geonames API-service to reconcile my data.  
I used the recomended Link from the Reconciliation Service Testbench ([Reconciliation service test bench](https://reconciliation-api.github.io/testbench/#/)) but I always get the error “Guess Types query failed error : java.io.IOException: HTTP error 404 : Not Found for URL /geonames-openrefine/reconcile”  
Other Services are working just fine.  
I also tried to start the service locally by following the instructions given here [GitHub - cmharlow/geonames-reconcile: GeoNames Reconciliation Service for OpenRefine/LODRefine/Google Refine](https://github.com/cmharlow/geonames-reconcile) but it won’t work either.  
Does it maybe have something to do with my institutions proxy-server? Before I figured that out, reconciliation didn’t want to work at all.  
I apreachiate any help I can get, thank you so much in advance.

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**Author:** ![abbe98](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.openrefine.org/abbe98/32/1299_2.png) [@abbe98](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/abbe98)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2023, 1:36pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/reconciliation-with-geonames-not-working/630/2 "2023-03-16T13:36:44Z")

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I’m afraid that server is known not to work.

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**Author:** ![J\_Meyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9bd4f/32.png) [@J\_Meyer](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/J_Meyer)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2023, 1:43pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/reconciliation-with-geonames-not-working/630/3 "2023-03-16T13:43:47Z")

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Oh no, that doesn’t sound very good for my task… I was hoping it is an error on my site.  
But is the server still maintained?

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**Author:** ![abbe98](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.openrefine.org/abbe98/32/1299_2.png) [@abbe98](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/abbe98)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2023, 1:48pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/reconciliation-with-geonames-not-working/630/4 "2023-03-16T13:48:19Z")

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I’m not sure but it hasn’t been working with OpenRefine for quite a while and I think it only supported locations in the Netherlands.

There is another one at: [https://fornpunkt.se/apis/reconciliation/geonames](https://fornpunkt.se/apis/reconciliation/geonames)

But it’s tuned for Swedish so it might not work as well.

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**Author:** ![J\_Meyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9bd4f/32.png) [@J\_Meyer](https://forum.openrefine.org/u/J_Meyer)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2023, 1:59pm UTC](https://forum.openrefine.org/t/reconciliation-with-geonames-not-working/630/5 "2023-03-16T13:59:12Z")

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The other server seems to be working! Thank you so much for your help.  
A was really bumped after trying so many options for the last days and nothing seemed to be working. Hopefully this one will keep on working for some more time 🙂