can i get a comprehensive list of city portals e.g. www.toronto.com,
in north america.

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Request for Question Clarification by darrel-ga on 16 Nov 2002 14:10 PST

How many cities are you looking for?

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Request for Question Clarification by easterangel-ga on 17 Nov 2002 02:15 PST

Dear bp123-ga,

I have researched your question for almost the whole day but could not
come up with a comprehensive answer for the whole of North America.
Some countries and cities have no websites yet so would a list of
portals for the US, Canada and Mexico do as a legitimate answer. Just
let me know.:)

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Clarification of Question by bp123-ga on 17 Nov 2002 06:44 PST

Yes i am looking for a very comprehensive listing of city portals in
North America. I would settle fo the top one or two thousand cities in
Canada, U.S. and Mexico. It is illogical to me that all major centers
in N.A. would not have a major city site, such as www.toronto.com.
Also, ideally if a major city has one or more recognized portals to
capture that additional information would be great. I was hoping that
as opposed to a one by one search - there may be a comprehensive
listing, association etc. out there somewhere.

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Request for Question Clarification by darrel-ga on 17 Nov 2002 07:26 PST

Hello bp--

I haven't been able to find one location where all the portals you are
requesting can be found. It would take a researcher days to compile
such a comprehensive listing of a couple thousand cities.

darrel-ga

Hi, 

http://www.toronto.com is not an official city portal. It is ran by a
company called City Search and you can find them here:

http://www.citysearch.com/

Along with a listing of all the major cities you are looking for in
you question.

Most of the city portals you see on the web will be part of a larger
grouping such as can be found here :
http://www.citiesunlimited.com/

The idea behind this is to create the illusion of being the City
Portal, when in fact they may not even be in the same country.

Official City sites will rarely be portal type websites because of the
amount of funding it requires to keep them running and the need to be
seen as endorsing one product or another. They will generally be
government sites, with City information such as court houses, local
laws and government votes that are coming up, or that have recently
been passed.

I did write a rather fast program to check every city name in the US
and check to see if there was a .com URL for that name, for example
www.sandiego.com or www.dallas.com.  Many of them are of course not
city websites but several of them are, and the ones that are, normally
are tied to a large city portal service. If you would like to look at
the file and use it for what ever reason just let me know and I'll
post it to this answer as a clarification, but it's so large I didn't
want to bother you with it if you didn't feel the need to see such a
list.

Thanks, 

webadept-ga

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Clarification of Answer by webadept-ga on 02 Dec 2002 18:39 PST

Hi again, 

As I said this is a huge file. This one is not complete, as the script
got inturupted, but its well over 250,000 checks. I didn't put in the
part to check for a "real city" type page. So some of these are
businesses and whatever happened to grab the domain name. Also, the
script was searching by zipcode, going through every thing with a
zipcode in the US, so you'll see things like Grandcanyon.com and
zioncanyon.com in there as well. But you said you wanted to see it so
here it is.

http://www.lucidmatrix.com/uploads/city_check.html

Thanks, 

webadept-ga

This isn't exactly what you want, but one way to find U.S. city
portals one by one is by clicking a state on:
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/officials/?command=local
Then click the letters from a to z. When you click a letter, you'll
see a list of city and county names. The red ones are links to more
information about that city or county, which often includes a link to
their official webpage.

bp123,

You can get a list of a couple of thousand US city portals from this
site:
http://www.muninetguide.com/

On the search page, select Category "Cities, Towns, & Villages", leave
the Keyword section blank, then press the "GO" button. All of the
entries in the database with links to a city website should be
displayed on the same page.

For Canadian sites, you could look at the city section by county from
these links:
http://www.oultwood.com/localgov/canada/alberta.htm
http://www.oultwood.com/localgov/canada/britishcolumbia.htm
http://www.oultwood.com/localgov/canada/manitoba.htm
http://www.oultwood.com/localgov/canada/newbrunswick.htm
http://www.oultwood.com/localgov/canada/newfoundland.htm
http://www.oultwood.com/localgov/canada/northwestterritories.htm
http://www.oultwood.com/localgov/canada/novascotia.htm
http://www.oultwood.com/localgov/canada/nunavut.htm
http://www.oultwood.com/localgov/canada/ontario.htm
http://www.oultwood.com/localgov/canada/princeedwardisland.htm
http://www.oultwood.com/localgov/canada/quebec.htm
http://www.oultwood.com/localgov/canada/saskatchewan.htm
http://www.oultwood.com/localgov/canada/yukon.htm