On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:36:03AM +0000, A.Haq Abbad wrote: > Salam, > Does anyboy know where I can get a file (csv, xml or plain), that > contains all of the cities in the world (loyaltiy free), > and their latitude, longitude and possibly (Not important) GMT offset > and Day light savings. > I need this for my prayer time app in Qt (for Nokia N900, Sybmian S60 > v5 series and possibly KDE). > Early code of the app: > [1]http://sourceforge.net/projects/munadi/ > Previously, I used Google's geo coding and IP to location webservice to > auto detect location, but IPtolocation.com started charging for the > service :D. > Google's geocoding is still an option, but the user has to type the > address and needs live internet connection, which is not always > available. The good thing aboout it however, is that you can type the > address in any language, including arabic, and you get the > corrosponding lat and long. > Wassalam.
Why do you need such a database for the N900 ? The N900 has a GPS and you can always use liblocation to obtain your current location. I guess minbar has a datafile. No idea how accurate it is. Cheers, -- GPG-Key: 0xA3FD0DF7 - 9F73 032E EAC9 F7AD 951F 280E CB66 8E29 A3FD 0DF7 Debian User and Developer. Homepage: www.foolab.org _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
