ngis ID

Hi bobomisiu,

 I see you have posted feature guids on various locations - however, my quick google search has failed to find any pertinent hits on NGIS.  Can you direct me to your source?

yes, http://geonames.nga.mil/ggmagaz/geonames4.asp

i entered what i thought would be the name of each feature each into the name field on that page

No, I don't think I can add to that field.

I tried it and it seems to not save, as if it had an administrative lock to prevent saving the value I add.

So if I found the value and couldn't save it.

Let me use http://www.freebase.com/view/en/warsaw as an example:

I open the "Location"

I open another browser window to http://geonames.nga.mil/ggmagaz/geonames4.asp and enter the word "warsaw"  into the name field. The site opens another window with results from which I choose the following " Warsaw   (BGN Conventional)" which opens another window with the result I anm looking for. I cut the feature name GUID "32FA87D01A773774E0440003BA962ED3"

I open the "GEOnet feature ID" on the freebase topic page, paste the cut GUID into the enumeration field, and press the save button.

The box respondes with a message "You do not have permission to do this."

My only choice is to press the cancel button, as the save button will not let me save.

Ah, you're correct.  The property GEOnet feature id has more restrictive permissions.  This property writes to a protected namespace, and that's why you aren't able to write the value.  However, property GEOnet feature id expects the UFI (Unique Feature ID) used by GEOnet for features outside of the United States, and not the feature name GUID.  The correct input would be -53443.

Let me talk with a few folks around the office and see what we can do about not having this property be so restricted, so we can allow data entry.