Ask HN: Is there a free download of countries and their major cities available?
I've got an app that needs to list countries and major cities in a couple of drop down boxes. I found one but it costs $1049.95 - http://www.download32.com/geodatasource-world-cities-database--gold-edition--i24139.html. Anyone know of anything a little cheaper, like free?
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 38.6 ms ] threadAnd then about eight hours' work to look up and type in the names of all the major cities in each country?
It would require you to do some parsing to filter what you need but the info is there.
I know you wanted cities, but maybe this could do
The database is pretty extensive, but you should only need to query it once to get what you need.
Or this has the capital and cities larger than the capital: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_capitals_and_largest_ci...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_capitals_and_larger_cit...