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suhair
suhair

Reputation: 10929

Where can I get databases of cities/places around the world?

In dopplr [http://www.dopplr.com] there is an option to fill the city of travel and the site will automatically find the city around the world. Is there any web service or database for such a city lookup?

Upvotes: 10

Views: 4851

Answers (5)

Peter
Peter

Reputation: 7324

There's the OpenStreetMap Name Finder.

I don't know if it's necessarily the most complete resource, but AFAIK OSM is free for any use, which may/may not be the case with other options.

Upvotes: 1

Espen
Espen

Reputation: 2158

The best free database of world cities I have found is from MaxMind. See http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecity It also includes geocoding information and population. Uses ISO standard for country and regions.

Upvotes: 1

Robert Brook
Robert Brook

Reputation: 128

http://www.geonames.org/ is useful - HTML query, download and web service.

Also http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/ - you'll need a Yahoo developer ID.

Upvotes: 7

OIS
OIS

Reputation: 10033

You could download and process this list on wikipedia. If you trust it.

Upvotes: 2

Ken
Ken

Reputation: 78852

Google maps API includes a geocoding service and there are plenty of other options

Upvotes: 4

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