A free list is available on http://world-gazetteer.com and you can start out with this. Well, it is not an exhaustive list, but gives the large cities and towns (around 700+). I personally have a list of 4000+ cities and towns for Asia and will share it, if need (this might need some cleaning up though)
In addition to the city point list, it might be great if we pool resources to draw in the city (urban agglomeration) boundaries and not administrative boundaries (these are available upto level 3 or 4) - Rajan On Fri, March 5, 2010 11:01 pm, António Rocha wrote: > Greetings > > I'm doing a small tool to calculate distances between cities. I mean, I > enter City of origin geographic position and city of destination > geographic > position and I calculate distances. The thing is, everytime I have to > check > at GOOGLE Earth a city position and it's getting to be a long a heavy task > to do. > > I realized that, this guys > http://www.assemblysys.com/dataservices/db_details.php?db=3 are > distributing > a database with cities geographic positions but this is PAID :( . What I > wanted to know is if there is any tool/software/database free, open source > where I can do exacly the same without having to pay for that. And even, > maybe add a few cities positions and contribute to the project > > Thank you > Toze > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > ---------------------------------------------------------- K S Rajan, Ph.D. Head, Lab for Spatial Informatics, Associate Professor, International Institute of Information Technology Gachibowli, Hyderabad 500032, Andhra Pradesh, India Tel: (+91-40)6653 1276 Fax: (+91-40)6653 1413 E-mail: ra...@iiit.ac.in GeoLocation: 17.4454 N, 78.3503 E _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss