Re: cites/states data
| From: | CC Zona | Date: | Fri, 29 Jun 2001 17:55:26 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: cites/states data | ||
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In article <5.0.0.25.0.20010629114033.00acc250@pop.mail.yahoo.com>,
jaski@satyam.net.in (Jaskirat) wrote:
> I am creating a database driven php page for which I need to have a database
> of
> US and Canadian states and cities in the back end.
> Is there some place on the web where I can get such data in the reusable
> form and
You might try looking at census data. It's public info, so free, and
should have extensive lists of city info somewhere (you may have to cobble
together a complete list from various regional sub-lists, but then again
maybe not...).
Another possible source: public GIS (geographic information system)
databanks. See
<http://directory.google.com/Top/Science/Social_Sciences/Geography/Geographi
c_Information_Systems/Data/>, for instance.
There are also plenty of people willing to sell you such info... ;-)
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CC