Hi thanks,

  I found out that with geonames, they do not have software to map the names
to maps in java. Therefore, if i wanted to do this, what kind of tools would
be needed?


webrian wrote:
> 
> 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
>> 
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