GeoDataSource World Cities Database Basic Edition February 2010

GeoDataSource World Cities Database Basic Edition February 2010 is a handy product that contains 2,339,493 entries with city names in original language and English, providing type classifications, country names in FIPS and ISO, regions and sub-regions.

Major Features:

1. Populated place: A city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work.
2. Seat of a first-order administrative division: Seat of a first-order administrative division.
3. Capital of a political entity: Capital of a political entity.
4. Populated locality: An area similar to a locality but with a small group of dwellings or other buildings.
5. Abandoned populated place: Abandoned populated place.
6. Religious populated place: A populated place whose population is largely engaged in religious occupations.
7. Populated places: Cities, towns, villages, or other agglomerations of buildings where people live and work.
8. Destroyed populated place: A village, town or city destroyed by a natural disaster, or by war.
9. Section of populated place: Section of populated place.
10. Second-order administrative division: Seat of a second-order administrative division.
11. Third-order administrative division: Seat of a third-order administrative division.
12. Fourth-order administrative division: Seat of a fourth-order administrative division.

Requirements:

• Internet connection capable of downloading 50 MB compressed ZIP data file
• 50 MB free disk space for compressed file
• 250 MB free disk space for uncompressed data files
• WinZIP or other similar archive extraction utility
• SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL or other database software application capable of importing 2,339,493 records from a standard tab-delimited ASCII text file and sufficient disk space to import the database