Re: Latitude/longitude data for world cities

From: John Woodruff (jpwoodruff_at_irisinternet.net)
Date: 11/18/03 

Date: 17 Nov 2003 16:26:33 -0800

Tristan Miller <psychonaut@nothingisreal.com> wrote in message news:<3342710.OXhz19qIDO@ID-187157.news.dfncis.de>...
> Greetings.
>
> I'm plotting some maps with the GMT tools and am looking for a
> freely-available text database of latitude/longitude coordinates for
> major cities around the world. Just one big file I can download,
> please;

Here's what I did a year or so ago, and I have a text file with about
1400 city entries. Most are USA, but there is no shortage.....

Website http://www.fourmilab.ch/homeplanet/homeplanet.html offers a
free and useful windows program, and a lot of data. The city lats and
longs are among those.

HTH
John