> > Points of Interest (City names, etc): > > > > ** Does anyone have a dataset or pointer to one for Cities with > > Populations that can be redistributed.
Hi, I know of two datasets which have this sort of info. Both the VMAP0 & NGA datasets can pretty easily be loaded into PostGIS tables, & indices on spatial & aspatial attributes generated to work well with mapserver. Keeping the data as shapefiles quickly becomes an administrative nightmare, so using a database to manage data does make using these data much easier. FYI, I found the NGA PC field made a reasonable filter for scale dependent layers of populated places with mapserver. The vmap0 datasets: http://earth-info.nga.mil/publications/vmap0.html http://www.mapability.com/index1.html?http&&&www.mapability.com/info/vmap0_index.html and the higher resolution & newer but contraversially incomplete vmap1: http://www.mapability.com/index1.html?http&&&www.mapability.com/info/vmap1_index.html Also NIMA's NGA dataset: description: http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/gis_countryfiles.htm download (all the various country files as one zip): http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/geonames_dd_dms_date_20080108.zip Hope this helps... Brent Wood
