I had a look at geonames and I'm very impressed. What I'm hopefully going to do (pending approval) is build a jquery form element to use the geonames json web service.
proof of concept : http://pastie.org/509530 Thanks again for the stear. Colin Guthrie-6 wrote: > > 'Twas brillig, and Mark Wright at 09/06/09 08:37 did gyre and gimble: >> These are flat files that you can edit into an importable format: >> >> http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/download_data.htm > > Personally I've had good experience with http://www.geonames.org/ > > Their data is world wide and contains lat/long data as well as just > place names. > > They provide handy csv files you can import without much effort. > http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/ (scroll down to read the readme) > > >> Personally, I think the best solution is to use Postgresql with the >> PostGIS extension. Then you can import shapefiles that not only >> contain names but also boundaries. You can then do spatial queries >> which far exceed what mysql is capable of. > > I'm not going to start the holy war here but MySQL's spacial > capabilities are not too shabby these days: > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/spatial-extensions.html > Not necessarily complete but still more than usable for many situations. > > YMMV > > Col > > -- > > Colin Guthrie > gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie > http://colin.guthr.ie/ > > Day Job: > Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] > Open Source: > Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] > PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] > Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/World%2C-Country%2C-town-city-database-tp23925508p23996997.html Sent from the Zend Framework mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
