James, The Global Gazetteer is the ultimate database of world populated places (plus ports & airports). We have over 4m places, with unique selection facilities to enable the production of any sized subset to meet a project or budgetary requirement. Best wishes Alan Pritchard The GLOBAL GAZETTEER: the world on file http://www.allm-geodata.com Tel: +44 (0) 1202 417 477 =============================================================== This is one of an occasional series of updates (2 or 3 a year) on the progress of the Global Gazetteer. I now have around 4 million places on file. About 70% of these are geocoded. There are around 1.2 million postcodes. Pretty well complete coverage of the world, with the exception of Iran, Iraq & Egypt. Data for ex-USSR countries and Greece is now being translated - populated places first, and then smaller places. Major postcode centres are completed. There are around 300K places with known populations. I have kept up to date with administrative changes, especially in Poland and the Czech Republic. I have added a new field to the database: the CRESTA zone code. This has been of interest to some of our Insurance clients, so I have included this as a regular field. I have provided a broad classification for one customer, the statistics of which might be of interest: Group Description Number of geocoded records 1 'Country' capitals 248 2 Administrative centres 26202 3 Places over 1000 population 93996 4 Other populated places 117740 5 Places with postcodes 159146 6 All other places with lat/long 2457000 I still believe that the Global Gazetteer is unique in providing a combination of: (a) the largest number of places (b) the widest range of data (c) unique selection facilities to identify the 'most important' places in order to meet project or budgetary requirements (d) the most complete range of postcodes, and especially geocoded postcodes If anyone would like more detailed statistics, a quote or a tailored sample, please contact me. Best wishes Alan Pritchard The GLOBAL GAZETTEER: the world on file http://www.allm-geodata.com ============================================================== Note on my mailing policy: I do not carry out any bulk mailings. I carefully select recipients of this email as being likely to be interested in geographical data, on the basis of their company, their activity in a mailing list or newsgroup, or as individuals who have contacted me in the past regarding data. If I have got it wrong, and you do NOT wish to receive very occasional emails about developments in the Global Gazetteer, please let me know and you will not be troubled again. =============================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
