In search of a database of cities in the world for your
weather site , I came across an interesting
resource . It simply lined up a list of all settlements, ordered by country and region.
Information provided for each location:- geographical coordinates
- height above sea level
- Timezone
- Is daylight saving time used
- approximate number of inhabitants (usually very low)
It also displays a small map, meteorological information and a list of nearby airfields.
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Now I sit and think how to get this database. I did not find any contact information on the site, the link “Credits” leads nowhere. It’s probably not possible to just steal the whole database via http: only in Russia there are more than 200,000 points. This is a few days of continuous parsing.
Update:The
geonames.org website
has found a downloadable
database with detailed information on localities around the world. Only in Russia there are 249,516 objects.
Thank you so much,
sapl !