Hi All
Seems that worldwide city databases are in short supply - at least free ones
are. Here is what I found:
1) The following site has a fairly large city database that can be queried -
and feeds back a lat/long and some other minor data. This is what I actually
used for most of my research (I only had about 80 cities to look up).
http://www.heavens-above.com/countries.asp
2) Alan pritchard suggested the Global Gazetteer as a source. This certainly
has a large collection of city data, but the price was more than my budget
(any price was more than my budget for that matter - don't you just love
cheap clients?). The URL is http://www.allm-geodata.com. In all fairness,
the data prices here were quite reasonable and I certainly bookmarked this
site for future consideration.
3) Glenn Letham of GeoComm.com suggested checking his site out for a couple
of point files. There was one with about 13,000 entries that also helped -
but it doesn't cover a lot of the smaller cities. The URL for GeoComm is
http://software.geocomm.com/data/
That's about it - I managed to find most of what I needed, but we sure could
use a good, cheap data file of world cities. Then again, we could also use a
really good 5 cent cigar, too :)
Thanks for the help everyone!
Regards,
James
James L Marlow
Director, Geographic Information Systems
Channel Marketing Corporation
15032 Beltway Drive
Addison, Texas 75001
Telephone 1 (972) 858-9600 extension 331
Facsimile 1 (972) 858-9601
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