I am not too familiar with DCW, but I believe that it only holds broad
size indicators, and it is somewhat old now.
The Global Gazetteer uses actual recent population figures
Best wishes
Alan Pritchard
The GLOBAL GAZETTEER: the world on file
http://www.allm-geodata.com
> doesn't the Digital Chart of the World hold population figures?
> If it does then download country sized chunks from www.gisdatadepot.com
> for
> free and enjoy.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Alan Pritchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, November 25, 1999 11:18 AM
> Subject: Re: MI Looking for European city points
>
>
> > John,
> >
> > The Global Gazetteer includes around 125,000 settlements in Europe and
> > 25,000 in Asia with actual population figures (out of a total of
> > 930K, and
> > 600K respectively).
> >
> > Selections can be made on population size or administrative function
> > within the country (e.g. country capital, province capital etc)
> >
> > Price depends upon number of records & fields supplied, with a
> > minimum of
> > $400.
> >
> > Best wishes
> > Alan Pritchard
> > The GLOBAL GAZETTEER: the world on file
> > http://www.allm-geodata.com
> >
> >
> >
> > > Can anyone direct me to a source for cheap/free city points for
> > > Europe?
> > > I have
> > > the European capitols that were included with Mapinfo 4.1 but I need
> > > the top 200
> > > or so cities(by population) for Western Europe.
> > > Accuracy/supplementary
> > > data are
> > > relativly unimportant. The same for Asia would also help down the
> > > road.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > John Vitiello
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