Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WorldCities database Free and OpenSource

2010-03-06 Thread Andrew Turner
Lester Caine wrote: António Rocha wrote: Greetings I'm doing a small tool to calculate distances between cities. I mean, I enter City of origin geographic position and city of destination geographic position and I calculate distances. The thing is, everytime I have to check at GOOGLE Earth a

[OSGeo-Discuss] WorldCities database Free and OpenSource

2010-03-05 Thread António Rocha
Greetings I'm doing a small tool to calculate distances between cities. I mean, I enter City of origin geographic position and city of destination geographic position and I calculate distances. The thing is, everytime I have to check at GOOGLE Earth a city position and it's getting to be a long a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WorldCities database Free and OpenSource

2010-03-05 Thread Paul Ramsey
http://www.geonames.org/ ? 2010/3/5 António Rocha toyze.ro...@gmail.com: Greetings I'm doing a small tool to calculate distances between cities. I mean, I enter City of origin geographic position and city of destination geographic position and I calculate distances. The thing is, everytime I

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WorldCities database Free and OpenSource

2010-03-05 Thread K S Rajan
A free list is available on http://world-gazetteer.com and you can start out with this. Well, it is not an exhaustive list, but gives the large cities and towns (around 700+). I personally have a list of 4000+ cities and towns for Asia and will share it, if need (this might need some cleaning up

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WorldCities database Free and OpenSource

2010-03-05 Thread Robert Hollingsworth
just for USA: US Census TIGER shpfiles, organized by state, *_place has outline polygon, name, state name, some classifiers. also just for USA: USGS' GNIS dataset has lat, long, name, state name, county name, type classifier -- for cities, towns and a whole lot of other stuff. REH A free list

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WorldCities database Free and OpenSource

2010-03-05 Thread Giovanni Manghi
Olá Antonio, tudo bem? are you looking for a distance matrix tool? QGIS has one, look into the vector menu - analysis tools - distance matrix abraços -- Giovanni -- On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 17:31 +, António Rocha wrote: Greetings I'm doing a small tool to calculate distances between

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WorldCities database Free and OpenSource

2010-03-05 Thread Markus Neteler
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Giovanni Manghi giovanni.man...@gmail.com wrote: are you looking for a distance matrix tool? QGIS has one, look into the vector menu - analysis tools - distance matrix ... and respectively for GRASS: - how to start it:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WorldCities database Free and OpenSource

2010-03-05 Thread Stefan Steiniger
Do the distance matrix tools work on geographic coordinates? I suspect for GRASS yes, but for QGIS? stefan Markus Neteler wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Giovanni Manghi giovanni.man...@gmail.com wrote: are you looking for a distance matrix tool? QGIS has one, look into the vector

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WorldCities database Free and OpenSource

2010-03-05 Thread Giovanni Manghi
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 13:58 -0700, Stefan Steiniger wrote: Do the distance matrix tools work on geographic coordinates? I suspect for GRASS yes, but for QGIS? it seems to work, just tested with the world city vector found here http://desktopgisbook.com/files/desktop_gis_data.zip cheers --

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] WorldCities database Free and OpenSource

2010-03-05 Thread Lester Caine
António Rocha wrote: Greetings I'm doing a small tool to calculate distances between cities. I mean, I enter City of origin geographic position and city of destination geographic position and I calculate distances. The thing is, everytime I have to check at GOOGLE Earth a city position and it's