Some more news for you. The cities endpoints now support a new ‘types’ parameter. This can have one (or both) of the following values: CITY, ADM2. Specifying both just gives back all city/admin-level-2 results - nonsensical right now, but in the future, there may be other types available. So if you want to just get back cities, set types=CITY. Swagger docs have been updated to reflect this.

To keep you from getting stuck, I just added a new ‘type’ attribute to each city in the results. This can be one of: ADM2, CITY. Swagger docs have also been updated (https://wirefreethought.github.io/geodb-cities-api-docs). The other features I described should be available sometime in the next couple weeks.

Hi. There was a request from another user to include additional ‘missing cities’ in Brazil. The missing cities were accounted for by updating the import process to include 2nd-level administrative divisions. I’m guessing that’s probably why you’re now seeing counties. The reason to include 2nd-level admin divisions in the city results is that often times these actually DO represent cities and towns, depending on the country.

Having said that, I’ll add a new type to the city results to allow you to differentiate. I will also provide an additional filter param to allow you to only explicitly return cities (or counties, if so desired). Maybe even a whole separate endpoint. Will update you here when this feature is available.