geonames_get_children

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List the direct children of a GeoNames feature — Earth's continents, a continent's countries, a country's first-level divisions, a state's counties, a city's sections — in the administrative tree, or in the tourism tree (islands, coasts, and their municipalities; almost all in Spain) or the dependency tree (a country's dependent territories). Start from a country's geonameId (geonames_get_countries) or any admin division's. Children are mostly admin divisions (class A) and populated places (class P); continents and coasts are class L and islands class T. For other feature types inside a place, use geonames_search_places with a boundingBox. GeoNames answers a tourism or dependency request with the administrative children when the feature has no such tree, so the tool compares the two lists and sets sameAsAdministrative when they match, keeping the rows (a real tree can match too). The full child list is fetched once (1 GeoNames credit) and cached, so paging and nameContains filtering are free; a tourism or dependency call also reads the administrative list for the comparison, 1 more credit unless it is cached.