Re: Off topic : world database

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 10:06:08 +1000, Rudi Starcevic <rudi@oasis.net.au> wrote:
> 
> I've been searching for a source for this data without joy so far and 
> would like to
> ask if someone on this list could point me to or help with a source for 
> this info.
> Ideally I'd like Country,States,and Cities with Longitude and Latitude 
> coordinates.

You can get data for the US for free. With a combination of Tiger and FIPS
data you can get Latitude and Longitude coordinates for street addresses.
There was an entry related to this in last year's Google contest. Finding
that entry will provide you with instructions for getting the data (unless
the government has decided it is too dangerous because of possible terrorism
since last summer). The project has some software for doing street address
to to Latitude and Longitude conversion. You will need to decide what point
in a city you will want to use.