Warren has made some very valid points regarding world gazetteers, and I
hope that he will not mind some further comments from the point of view of
the Global Gazetteer. All comments should, of course, be prefixed by IMO.
1) Strictly speaking, a gazetteer is simply a location look-up. It does
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
Hello James,
Can I just append my company's world data offering onto your excellent sum:
Europa Technologies has a series of world data sets which includes the popular Global
Insight
product line. The entry level product in this family is Global Insight Lite - a 1:3m
scale up-to-date
