GeoDataSource World Cities Database (Free Edition) April.2009

GeoDataSource World Cities Database (Free Edition) April.2009 is a software which offers users the free database of worldwide cities in text format suitable for any applications requiring a comprehensive list of cities and country code. It is a subset of the paid edition of GeoDataSource World Cities Database Basic, Premium and Gold Editions.

Major Advantages:

1. Updated Monthly
2. Multiple Subscriptions Packages Available
3. Discounted Subscriptions Pricing Available
4. Most Accurate and Up-to-Date Source of Data
5. Comprehensive List of Cities and Related Items (2,274,276 Entries)
6. Support Worldwide 260+ Countries, Territories and Sovereign Lands
7. Instant Download Upon Subscription
8. Free Customer Support
9. Many Happy Customers

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. 

Requirements:

• Internet connection capable of downloading 50 MB compressed ZIP data file
• 100 MB free disk space for compressed file
• 500 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 2,893,905 records from a standard tab-delimited ASCII text file and sufficient disk space to import the database