The Calle material
http://www.calle.com/world/index.html
is more useable for making one enquiry at a time- though I do know someone
who laboriously downloaded all the data for one particular country as text
files, a page at a time, using View/Source on Internet Explorer ;-)
The instantly available database for any given country is the US National
Imagery and Mapping Agency database at:
http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/cntry_files.html
Bob H
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----- Original Message -----
From: "George Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Bob Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, 9 February 2001 02:29
Subject: Re: MI-L International Geocoding
> Hi
>
> I have looked at the Calle database, but
> have not found a simple way to download from it.
>
> Any clues would be most welcome
>
> Thanks
>
> George
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "David Andrews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Kamel,
Jennifer'"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 10:07 PM
> Subject: Re: MI-L International Geocoding
>
>
> > http://www.calle.com/world/index.html
> > The Calle Global gazetteer.
> > This is a searchable directory of 2,880,532 of the world's cities and
> towns,
> > sorted by country and linked to a map for each town. I have found,
> > correlating this data with inch to the mile maps, that the locations are
> > generally accurate within a kilometre or less. It's a very useful
> database,
> > and Mr Calle is to be highly commended.
> > Bob Hudson
> > University of Sydney
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "David Andrews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "'Kamel, Jennifer'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, 7 February 2001 07:37
> > Subject: RE: MI-L International Geocoding
> >
> >
> > > Try looking at the website http://www.whereonearth.com they may be
able
> > to
> > > help you
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kamel,
> > > Jennifer
> > > Sent: 06 February 2001 17:33
> > > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > > Subject: MI-L International Geocoding
> > >
> > >
> > > Has anyone needed to do international geocoding? I have a MapInfo
table
> > > with over 13,000 cities worldwide that I typically "geocode" my points
> > > against but for cities like Baldham & Planegg, Germany, I'm out of
luck.
> > > (If anyone wants a copy of the table, let me know.)
> > >
> > > What would be ideal is a website that I can submit a city & country
and
> > get
> > > a latitude & longitude. Anyone come across a website that can do
that?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > >
> > > Jennifer
> > >
> > > Jennifer Kamel
> > > Resource Administrator
> > > 10960 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 1700
> > > Los Angeles, CA 90024
> > > P (310) 444-1013
> > > F (310) 444-1099
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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