Ian Abbott <abbotti <at> mev.co.uk> writes:
On 2011/12/05 05:18 PM, Daniel White wrote:
There is one at http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/ (by country, it's a lot of data).
Certainly. I only want the most famous places, something closer to around 100k-200k filesize at the most (as my calc is only around 300k itself). If it means I have to filter yet another stage, then so be it, but then I would need to hunt for a list of the '1000 most well known places' (or similar) in the world.
The 'cities15000.zip' is closer to what you want, but it's still more data than you wanted (1.2 megs compressed, 3.3 megs uncompressed).
Actually that may do the trick - thank you. The second last entry in each line is the TZID too. If I take out all the other translated names and other gunk, I think I may be able to squash it to 1/10th the size. For anyone else who's interested, here is the key to the data too: http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/readme.txt If anyone knows of anything more suitable, let me know.