Probably you look for something like geonames: http://www.geonames.org
There is also a Java library, which helps you to access the geonames web services: http://www.geonames.org/source-code/ Adrian Custer wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 13:16 -0700, fx5900 wrote: >> Hi i was just curious to know, when it comes to using geospacial data, >> how do >> i assertain this, London? Or is it already part of the Data section in >> the >> GeoTools library? >> >> Thanks > > GeoTools does not have any way to disambiguate "London" and guess which > one you mean and from that give you coordinates in some reference system > you may care about. That kind of work requires a special set of modules > and then lots of linguistic logic. > > --adrian > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php > _______________________________________________ > Geotools-gt2-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-gt2-users > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Database-Query-tp18184900p18190686.html Sent from the geotools-gt2-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Geotools-gt2-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-gt2-users
