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Subject: List of place names of the world
Category: Sports and Recreation > Travel
Asked by: bobwander-ga
List Price: $10.00		 Posted: 30 Jun 2006 10:58 PDT
Expires: 30 Jul 2006 10:58 PDT
Question ID: 742369 
I am looking for a definitive source of names and location
(latitude/longitude) of all populated places (cities/towns) on earth.
Any kind of database or CSV format is fine. Hierarchical data is
desired: country>administrative region>city/town.
Request for Question Clarification by scriptor-ga on 30 Jun 2006 11:04 PDT 
Would this meet your requirements?
http://www.fallingrain.com/world/

Regards,
Scriptor
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Subject: Re: List of place names of the world
Answered By: pafalafa-ga on 30 Jun 2006 11:40 PDT
 
bobwander-ga,

The free download from the World Gazetteer vailable here:


http://www.world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=1129163518&men=stdl&lng=en&gln=xx&dat=32&srt=npan&col=aohdq


should fully meet your needs.  


If not, just let me know via the Clarify feature, and I'll continue
searching for you.

All the best,

pafalafa-ga


search strategy -- used bookmarked sites for gazetteers
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