Anselmo queried: > >Does anybody know of any public-domain list of latitudes and longitudes >of world cities? The ones I've found don't have more than 30 cities and >don't seem very accurate... > The UK Times "Atlas of the World" (Comprehensive edition) ISBN 0 7230 0492 7 has 218 A3 size closely printed pages of the towns and cities of the world. Each has its latitude and longitude listed.
An example chosen at random from pages 217/218 where all the hundreds of cities, towns and villages? beginning 'Z' are listed is: "Zhangsanying Hebei - China - 41.30N 117.36E" I quickly found that the decimal point actually separates degrees and minutes and not decimal degrees. Of course I can't personally vouch for the accuracy but Lord Shackleton - former President of The Royal Geographical Society - is quoted on the dust jacket as stating it to be "The finest reference atlas ever produced". At 460mm x 320mm x 50mm it certainly isn't a pocket edition but oh those lovely large scale maps or just about everywhere. Tony Moss -
