I am looking for information on where I can buy a list that contains
descriptions for most cities in the US. For each city, the list must
contain the state, county and at least three sentences describing the
city. In order for the list to be complete, it must contain 80% of
all incorporated cities in the US, or 80% of the 19,451 incorporated
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Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
02 Aug 2004 16:28 PDT
What sort of description are you interested in for the cities?
I'm not aware of any databases that list virtually all cities AND
include writeen descriptions of them. But there are certainly
databases that include all cities and also include additional
information, such as: state, county, lat/long, elevation, population,
and a few other odds and ends.
Are these of interest? Or do you only want databases with written
sentences on the listed cities?
Let me know.
pafalafa-ga
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Clarification of Question by
iblaine-ga
on
02 Aug 2004 16:56 PDT
The descriptions must contain non-quantitative data. Population
stats, elevation, lat/long info can be found at the census bureau.
The sites Yahoo and Wikipedia are good examples of the type of that
interests me - both sites contain descriptions and tourist type
information such as who founded a given city, major events for that
city and more. Unfortunately this data is not for sale but I'm hoping
somewhere it can be found.
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Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
02 Aug 2004 17:30 PDT
Thanks for the clarification. I wish you good luck.
paf
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Clarification of Question by
iblaine-ga
on
02 Aug 2004 19:14 PDT
Thanks paf.
-- B
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Request for Question Clarification by
tutuzdad-ga
on
05 Aug 2004 08:16 PDT
Dear iblaine-ga:
After some exhaustive searching I believe I may have found what you
are looking for. Could you please take a llok at this resourse and let
me know if, for the purposes of your question, it provides a
satisfactory answer?
CITY-DATA.COM
http://www.city-data.com/
"We've collected and analyzed data from numerous sources to create as
complete and interesting profiles of thousands of U.S. cities as we
could. We have thousands of pictures, maps, satellite photos, stats
about residents (race, income, ancestries, education, employment...),
geographical data, crime data, weather, hospitals, schools, libraries,
houses, airports, radio and TV stations, zip codes, area codes,
user-submitted facts, similar cities list, comparisons to averages..."
Thousands of US cities, towns and vilages are listed here. Each state
is broken down into two categories:
-- Cities, towns, and villages in Arkansas between 1000 and 6000 residents
-- Towns, and villages in Arkansas with fewer than 1000 residents
This appears to be the best and most comphrensive resource out there
along the line you are seeking - all in one convenient place at least.
I look forward to hearing back from you.
Regards;
tutuzdad-ga
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Request for Question Clarification by
tutuzdad-ga
on
05 Aug 2004 08:19 PDT
Correction:
Thousands of US cities, towns and vilages are listed here. Each state
is broken down into THREE categories:
-- Cities, towns, and villages in each state over 6000 residents
-- Cities, towns, and villages in each state between 1000 and 6000 residents
-- Towns, and villages in each state with fewer than 1000 residents
(The earlier references to the state of Arkansas were merely an
example for discussion purposes. Each state is similarly categorized )
Regards;
tutuzdad-ga
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Request for Question Clarification by
aditya2k-ga
on
08 Aug 2004 05:18 PDT
Would something like http://www.usacitiesonline.com/ work?
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Clarification of Question by
iblaine-ga
on
09 Aug 2004 09:31 PDT
If the data is for sale the this question can be considered answered.
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Request for Question Clarification by
aditya2k-ga
on
10 Aug 2004 01:43 PDT
Let me clarify this further...
If the information is FREE, you're not interested ?
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Clarification of Question by
iblaine-ga
on
10 Aug 2004 09:35 PDT
If the information is usable. If it's free or it can be purchased,
then it's usable. As mentioned previously, this information can be
found by going to yahoo.com or wikipedia however spidering their site
for this information is not allowed, so I'm looking for a usable
source for this data.
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Request for Question Clarification by
tutuzdad-ga
on
11 Aug 2004 07:37 PDT
I am waiting to hear back from
CITY-DATA.COM
http://www.city-data.com/
I believe I may have contacted someone who is in a position to sell
you the data and provide it in a useable format for your purposes.
From what you have said and from what I gather, if they indicate they
are willing to negotiate a sale of their compiled data with you this
will suffice as an answer, correct?
tutuzdad-ga
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Clarification of Question by
iblaine-ga
on
11 Aug 2004 09:49 PDT
tutuzdad-ga, if that's the case then you answered the question. Thank you.
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Request for Question Clarification by
tutuzdad-ga
on
11 Aug 2004 11:46 PDT
As soon as I hear back from them about the possibility of buying their
data (or use of it) I'll get right back to you.
tutuzdad-ga
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