[Mapserver-users] Shape File with all US towns/ good places to get shape files (or other mapserver data)

[Ed Martin]

i don't know if this is the right place to ask this, but i'm trying to 
get a shape file (or any other format that will work) that has the the 
US towns and some way to reference to them for use with mysql, i found 
someone who said they should have something like that (i think) @ 
zip.ya-right.net but that site seems to be down

so can any one give me a link to a place where i could get this data, 
also i'd like to here of some good places to get the shape files (and 
other formats)