I found this web page useful. I thought I would share it:
http://www.cosmocode.de/en/blog/schoenborn/2010-01/24-free-geo-data-solu
tions-compared-geonames.org-vs.-yahoo-geoplanet
It goes over some of the similarities and differences between geonames
and yahoo geoplanet.
Landon
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