Longitute - Latitude Library

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iknownothing
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Longitute - Latitude Library

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Hey guys,

does anyone know of a text file/database freely available that contains the longitude and latitude coordinates of virtually any location (city, town etc) in the world?

Thanks.
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The Google API may have a lot of information available but still is sketchy in some areas and not as a text file/database directly downloadable as far as I know. I know a year ago they didn't have much on poland for instance. Another possible location is geonames.

You say freely available... To quote thread Canadian Postal Code Database...
Jcart wrote:Geo-Databases don't come cheap.. my university is buying such databases all the times for tens of thousands of dollars.
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Post by iknownothing »

Thanks.

GeoNames looks like a winner, it is available to use, and they update it frequently which I can then update my own.
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Post by alex.barylski »

DAFIF might be of interest. I do not believe it is publically available anymore however. You could probably get away with an older database though.
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