You may be able to do something with CIESEN's estimated urban extent polygons, 
available as a WFS at 
http://beta.sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/mapserver/wfs/grump?version=1.1.1&service=WMS&request=GetCapabilities

Cheers

--- On Thu, 14/1/10, William J. Spat <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: William J. Spat <[email protected]>
> Subject: [Geowanking] Latitude/Longitude Polygons for world cities
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Thursday, 14 January, 2010, 13:00
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> Would anyone happen to know of
> an open archive of polygons
> defining the major cities of the world? 
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> What I am looking for are
> series of lat/long points which define
> polygons within which the cities lie. 
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> The polygons don’t have
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> reasonably approximate.  All the open archives
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> far give the lat/long co-ordinates of the city centres,
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> I would be very grateful if
> anyone could direct me to such an
> archive or archives (even if you just know of one for your
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> continent, I am interested) 
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> Thanks in advance, 
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