GeoDataSource World Cities Database (Gold Edition) January.2009

GeoDataSource World Cities Database (Gold Edition) January.2009 is designed as a professional program that contains 2.9+ million entries with city names in original language and English, feature type classifications, country names in FIPS and ISO, regions, sub-regions, state or First-Order Administrative Division, county or Second-Order Administrative Division, longitude and latitude in degree and decimal, Univeral Transverse Mercator coordinate grid and Joint Operations Graphic reference. Free database in text format suitable for applications requiring a complete list of city names.

Major Benefits:

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 (3,156,377 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. A city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work.
2. Seat of a first-order administrative division.
3. Capital of a political entity.
4. An area similar to a locality but with a small group of dwellings or other buildings.
5. Abandoned populated place.
6. A populated place whose population is largely engaged in religious occupations.
7. Cities, towns, villages, or other agglomerations of buildings where people live and work.
8. A village, town or city destroyed by a natural disaster, or by war.
9. Section of populated place.

Requirements:

1. Internet connection capable of downloading 50 MB compressed ZIP data file
2. 100 MB free disk space for compressed file
3. 450 MB free disk space for uncompressed data files
4. WinZIP or other similar PKZip archive extraction utility
5. SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL or other database software application capable of importing 3,156,377 records from a standard tab-delimited ASCII text file and sufficient disk space to import the database