Based on your example URLs, a recursive wget retrieval will put each downloaded file into a file "geodata" in its own directory. Once it's on your local disk, you can do with the data how you'd like, including renaming and moving the files into a more convenient form (e.g. Using mmv or a find -exec command).
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