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Free database with places, parent places, latitude, longitude, etc.

Where to find free database of wolrd places with following fields:

  • id
  • place name in English
  • place name in original language
  • place type - city, region, state, country, continent, etc.
  • latitude
  • longitude
  • parent id - id of place which current place belongs to, for example, San Francisco belongs to California, but California belongs to US.

and ip range table which maps to this table places.

I found free maxmind db, but in it isnt hierarchical structure of places, place type and original name.

+1  A: 

Have you checked WOEIDs from Yahoo? http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/geoplanet/data/

earlyriser  2010-07-27 19:27:11
there are not lat/long fields
codez  2010-07-27 19:50:01
you can get the lat long from YQL.
earlyriser  2010-07-27 20:03:34
I can't use external services. I need data to be on my server, because I need them to be spatially indexed.
codez  2010-07-27 20:21:10
You can store the results from YQL in your DB. It would take 25 days (for the query limit). But I guess you want something quicker.
earlyriser  2010-07-28 13:35:11
A: 

Maybe the World Gazetteer will work?

mediaslave  2010-07-27 19:30:16
A: 

Following the links from World Gazetteer: GEOnet Names Server

devio  2010-07-27 20:00:14

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