Very, very nice.
It's hard to consider a "pass" as being anything other than a route "to" one place, "from" another place. I can't see any ridge being called a "pass" for any reason other than the fact that human beings use it to pass from one side to the other. Not mountain goats, not marmots, not even bears...human beings.
This helps considerably.
Question....can you search the NGA database for passes, even if they do not end in "Narai"? Not asking you to do it, just wanting to know if a search can be run that way.
Big thanks.
Searching: For any occurrence of the geographic feature designation, "pass", in the FATA area of Pakistan.
Found: 572 hits for location ending in "Narai", and 366 hits for locations ending in "Kandao", both of which cover all but perhaps a dozen of all the hits located on the GEONames database for that area.
• “Not asking you to do it, just wanting to know if a search can be run that way.?”
Oh great, now you tell me! J
The GEONames database is searchable by any or all of the 643 feature designations used by the database (don't make me post them!). It is also searchable by using latitude and longitude coordinates to box in the area of search. Other search criteria are country(s), administrative area, "starts with", "contains", "ends with" name criteria.
It has so many features and search capability that many are put off by its complexity. It takes a while to get familiar with these features simply by trial and error. However, if you'd like, FReepmail me with your phone number (or a request for mine), and I'll spend some time walking you through the fine points of navigating that database. You won't be disappointed.
--Boot Hill