<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">just for USA: US Census TIGER shpfiles, organized by state, "*_place" has outline polygon, name, state name, some classifiers.<br>also just for USA: USGS' GNIS dataset has lat, long, name, state name, county name, type classifier -- for cities, towns and a whole lot of other stuff.<br><br>REH<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br><div class="plainMail">A free list is available on <a href="http://world-gazetteer.com" target="_blank">http://world-gazetteer.com</a> and you can start<br>out with this. Well, it is not an exhaustive list, but gives the large<br>cities and towns (around 700+). I personally have a list of 4000+ cities<br>and towns for Asia and will share it, if need (this might need some<br>cleaning up though)<br><br>In addition to the city point list, it might be great if we pool
resources<br>to draw in the city (urban agglomeration) boundaries and not<br>administrative boundaries (these are available upto level 3 or 4)<br><br>- Rajan<br><br><br>On Fri, March 5, 2010 11:01 pm, António Rocha wrote:<br>> Greetings<br>><br>> I'm doing a small tool to calculate distances between cities. I mean, I<br>> enter City of origin geographic position and city of destination<br>> geographic<br>> position and I calculate distances. The thing is, everytime I have to<br>> check<br>> at GOOGLE Earth a city position and it's getting to be a long a heavy task<br>> to do.<br>><br>> I realized that, this guys<br>> <a href="http://www.assemblysys.com/dataservices/db_details.php?db=3" target="_blank">http://www.assemblysys.com/dataservices/db_details.php?db=3</a> are<br>> distributing<br>> a database with cities geographic positions but this is PAID :( . What I<br>> wanted to know is if there is any
tool/software/database free, open source<br>> where I can do exacly the same without having to pay for that. And even,<br>> maybe add a few cities positions and contribute to the project<br>><br>> Thank you<br>> Toze<br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Discuss mailing list<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:Discuss@lists.osgeo.org" href="/mc/compose?to=Discuss@lists.osgeo.org">Discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>> <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a><br>><br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------<br>K S Rajan, Ph.D.<br><br>Head, Lab for Spatial Informatics,<br>Associate Professor,<br>International Institute of Information Technology<br>Gachibowli, Hyderabad 500032, Andhra Pradesh, India<br>Tel: (+91-40)6653 1276<br>Fax: (+91-40)6653 1413<br>E-mail: <a ymailto="mailto:rajan@iiit.ac.in"
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