i need to get /purchase a list of all destinations in the world,
including their translation in main languages.
for example London is Londen in dutch, Londra in Italian, etc.
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Request for Question Clarification by
rainbow-ga
on
12 Oct 2005 16:11 PDT
Hi ck_be,
Please take a look at these lists and let me know if they suit your purposes:
List of country names in various languages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_country_names_in_various_languages
Names of European cities in different languages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_European_cities_in_different_languages
List of cities in the Americas with alternative names
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_the_Americas_with_alternative_names
Waiting to hear your views.
Best regards,
Rainbow
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Clarification of Question by
ck_be-ga
on
12 Oct 2005 16:29 PDT
this is very good, it's 80% there, but is there a downloadable list
somewhere say in CSV,Excel or MSF (SQL etc)?
i wonder where did wikipedia get their info from...
best
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Request for Question Clarification by
rainbow-ga
on
12 Oct 2005 16:37 PDT
Thank you for your clarification.
I will continue searching and let you know of my progress.
Best regards,
Rainbow
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Request for Question Clarification by
rainbow-ga
on
12 Oct 2005 21:46 PDT
After further research I was not able to locate a downloadable list.
Please let me know how you would like to proceed.
Best wishes,
Rainbow
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Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
13 Oct 2005 12:14 PDT
Hardly classified as "all destinations in the world", but here's a
nicely-organized list of place names, in English, Dutch, French,
Greek, and Italian:
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/alb_gsb/diplomacy/articles/language1.htm
Is that getting any closer to what you need? Would it help to have
these names in a spreadsheet format?
Let me know,
pafalafa-ga
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Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
13 Oct 2005 14:13 PDT
Hello again.
I've found a list in Excel format of 130 major cities of the world
(listed below) in eight languages: English, French, German, Italian,
Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, and Dutch.
The city names list looks like this (in the same order as the above languages):
Bucharest, Bucarest, Bukarest, Bucharest, Bucarest, Bucareste, Bukarest, Boekarest
Again, the list of cities is below. Let me know if this looks like it
would serve as an answer to your question.
Cheers,
pafalafa-ga
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Addis Ababa
Adelaide
Auckland
Ankara
Algiers
Amsterdam
Anchorage AK
Antananarivo
Asuncion
Athens
Atlanta GA
Abu Dhabi
Bucharest
Barcelona
Baghdad
Belgrade
Beijing
Berlin
Beirut
Bangkok
Brisbane
Bogota
Boston MA
Bern
Brussels
Brasilia
Buenos Aires
Budapest
Cairo
Casablanca
Canberra
Caracas
Calcutta
Chicago IL
Colombo
Copenhagen
Cape Town
Dhaka
Damascus
New Delhi
Detroit MI
Dublin
Frankfurt
Guatemala City
Geneva
Hamburg
Hanoi
Havana
Ho Chi Minh City
Helsinki
Hong Kong
Honolulu HI
Houston TX
Indianapolis
Istanbul
Jakarta
Johannesburg
Kabul
Khartoum
Kiev
Kingston
Kathmandu
Kuala Lumpur
Kuwait City
Las Vegas NV
Los Angeles CA
Lima
Lisbon
London
Lagos
La Paz
Luxembourg
Madrid
Melbourne
Mexico City
Managua
Miami FL
Milan
Manama
Manila
Montreal
Moscow
Montevideo
Nassau
Nairobi
New York NY
Oslo
Ottawa
Port-au-Prince
Paris
Perth
Phoenix
Phnom Penh
Port-Of-Spain
Papeete
Prague
Portland OR
Pretoria
Panama City
Rangoon
Rio de Janeiro
Reykjavik
Rome
Riyadh
San Salvador
Santiago
Seattle WA
Seoul
San Francisco CA
Shanghai
Singapore
San Jose
San Juan
Salt Lake City UT
Sofia
Sao Paulo
Stockholm
Sydney
Tashkent
Tokyo
Taipei
Tripoli
Toronto
Quito
Vancouver
Vienna
Warsaw
Washington DC
Wellington
Zurich
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Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
14 Oct 2005 18:26 PDT
Just checking in....any feedback on the list of cities (above) and the
various languages I mentioned?
paf
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Clarification of Question by
ck_be-ga
on
17 Oct 2005 13:33 PDT
unfortunately all these lists seem to be incomplete or very small
take for example a detailed example of
Targu Mures - a city in Romania, it's
Neumarkt in German
Marosvasarhely in Hungarian
i think that perhaps connecting into Mappoint from Microsoft would
allow me to extract the data?
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Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
17 Oct 2005 17:56 PDT
Here's an interesting site that has a pretty deep list of city names
in multiple languages, for most of Europe:
http://www.p.lodz.pl/I35/personal/jw37/EUROPE/europe-T.html
For instance, Târgu Mure? (ro), is also given as:
Maros-Torda (hu)
Neumarkt (de)
Târgu Mure?, Tîrgu Mure? (ro)
while London is listed as:
Llundain (cy)
Londain (ga)
Londen (nl)
Londinium (la)
Londona (lv)
Londonas (lt)
Londra (it, rm, tr)
Londre (rm)
Londres (ct, es, fr, pt)
Londyn (pl)
Londýn (cz, sk)
Lontoo (fi)
Lundun (no),
Lundúnaborg, Lundúnir (is)
Names are also given for other alphabets.
I don't see a neat way to import such a list into a spreadsheet file,
but the information is there...at least for Europe.
Let me know what you think.
paf
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Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
18 Oct 2005 08:34 PDT
ck_be-ga,
I found a service that can create a list to your precise specifications.
The have a database of millions of city names worldwide. About 11,000
of the major cities have language variant names in a very large
assortment of languages, including Arabic, Gaelic, Parsi, and so on,
along with the usual -- English, French, German, and so on.
The cost to create the list would be $450.
Please contact The Global Gazetteer to see if they fully meet your
needs. If they do, let me know, and I will post my research results
as a formal answer to your question, so that I can collect the fee you
have offered.
The company's contact information is:
Global Gazetteer
http://www.allm-geodata.com/
Tel: +44 (0) 1202 417 477
email: alan.pritchard@gmail.com
Let me know how things turn out.
pafalafa-ga
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Clarification of Question by
ck_be-ga
on
18 Oct 2005 15:29 PDT
this is it, thank you - that's what i was looking for.
now i have to figure out how to close this thread..
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