[OSGeo-Discuss] points of interest database

[Fawcett, David (MPCA)]

There are points for populated places and a few other cultural feature types in Natural Earth.  1:10 million.  Very liberal (public domain) license.

http://www.naturalearthdata.com/

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From: discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Keith Jenkins
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 11:12 AM
To: Dimitris Kotzinos
Cc: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] points of interest database

Dimitris,

Geonames.org has downloadable point data, licensed under CC-by-3.0:
    http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/

Cheers,
Keith


On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Dimitris Kotzinos <kotzino at csd.uoc.gr> wrote:
> I am looking for a points of interest database (regardless of format, 
> I use database in a loose term here) that is licensed under one of the 
> open source/data/creative commons licenses.
> I know of course about open street maps and their layer of POIs and 
> the one from OGC (http://openpoidb.ogcnetwork.net/).
> Is there anything else available out there? :)
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