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Database world cities with their names in all languages of the world
Wikidata has a category called "city" which will give you a list of world cities
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q515
You can use SPARQL to query Wikidata
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/...
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Database world cities with their names in all languages of the world
I guess the Geonames project is the closest answer to your question. You can download the data directly on the website or you can also find it here and download it/use the api.
Cheers
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List of United States cities
The US Census Bureau also has a national gazeteer file with state and city info, including incorporation information.
For metadata/excel file column please have a look at HERE.
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Worldwide database of locations (cities)?
Why don't you use OSM's API?
A similar question was asked on gis:
How to get a list of OSM relations (id numbers) of cities and countries only?
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Database world cities with their names in all languages of the world
As a variation of above, if you want all the labels in all the languages, you can get it from Wikidata like so:
SELECT DISTINCT ?city ?country (lang(?label) AS ?language) ?label
WHERE
{
?city ...
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List of United States cities
I have a CSV file you can download that lists all US cities by state. The data was compiled from the US Census 2013 Gazetteer.
http://www.opengeocode.org/download.php#statecity
In case you must ...
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A list of cities of each country
UN/LOCODE includes over 103,034 locations in 249 countries and installations in international waters. It is used by most major shipping companies, by freight forwarders and in the manufacturing ...
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Free Cadastral Map
From Wikipedia:
A Cadastre is normally a parcel based, and up-to-date land information
system containing a record of interests in land (e.g. rights,
restrictions and responsibilities). It ...
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List of every city and town in the world?
You can try the Geonames database.
The GeoNames geographical database covers all countries and contains over eleven million placenames that are available for download free of charge.
You may have ...
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Largest U.S. cities per state in 1950
The data you want are in these files.
The primary source for this data was a US Census Bureau dataset of ~7500 incorporated cities whose populations surpassed 2500 people at some point in their ...
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Where can I download a dataset including longitude and latitude coordinates at a city level
I think that geonames.org has the data you require.
It's datasets contain:
The main 'geoname' table has the following fields :
---------------------------------------------------
geonameid : ...
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List of United States cities
You might try using data from the Geonames.org database. You can download gazateer data by country from this list.
Another potential source is the the MaxMind GeoLite2 dataset.
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Free Cadastral Map
Greater Geelong, Australia's Cadastral GIS Data
and here is Montana's Cadastral Map/Data if state level is not too big for your example.
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Worldwide database of locations (cities)?
I suggest to try Geonames, which is a well-recognized open database of geolocalized places worldwide. Geonames links the name of places (from hotel to cities) to coordinates (longitude & latitude, ...
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Energy Consumption of individual buildings
Cornell Univserity offers real-time energy consumption data for individual buildings, and well as generation from renewable or plant generation
http://portal.emcs.cornell.edu/
Categories, each ...
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Macro Indicators of Economic Data by ZIP Codes or Cities in the US
Wolfram Mathematica comes with curated data build in. For this answer I'll restrict the data collection to only a couple of counties but it is easily expanded to more.
We will use the ...
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Macro Indicators of Economic Data by ZIP Codes or Cities in the US
I can certainly help you with the income estimates. The Census Bureau publishes mean/average income at the ZCTA level. For cities and ZCTA's, the estimate come from a pooled 5-year sample that ranges ...
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Property ownership data
The link below lists all SF municipal websites that provide public datasets related to property. I do not know if any of these datasets have ownership records.
http://propertymap.sfplanning.org/...
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US Universities and colleges with city/town state?
Database of Accredited Postsecondary Institutions and Programs by the Department of Education has this data for download in CSV and XLSX.
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Scanned architectural building plans
Guggenheim Helsinki Design Competition opened all of its entries on GitHub.
Not sure how many are of houses and/or if this is useful.
More info here
The Open Architecture Network seems to not exist ...
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Worldwide database of locations (cities)?
check (and collaborate!) at Data Packaged Core Datasets the specific datasets:
https://github.com/datasets/population-city
https://github.com/datasets/world-cities
Both are related to https://github....
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Air quality in all cities in the USA
The Environmental Protection Agency monitors this in many places and have much of this data available for free, as well as extensive documentation: https://www.epa.gov/outdoor-air-quality-data
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Get random city of any country
I've developed and host an online city database called GeoDB Cities which should fit the bill. Here's how I would implement a Random-City-Name feature:
Do an initial query to get the total count of ...
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Seeking list of all US cities and their latitude and longitude
United States Cities Database
A simple, accurate, and up-to-date database of United States cities and towns, built from the ground up using authoritative sources such as the U.S. Geological Survey ...
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Seeking list of all US cities and their latitude and longitude
The U.S. Census Bureau is the authoritative government agency that has been tasked with managing national data about governments (state, local, and municipal) and the boundaries that they claim.
The ...
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Seeking shapefile for project work in India
As @PolyGeo said, this is a question for Open Data SE. But you can get a such data from here (although they might be a bit outdated). It contains the KOZHIKODE City for sure. I imported the village....
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Fire incidents data
For the US, have you looked into the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) data? That contains all of what you're looking for:
Type of fire (indicating severity)
Address
Type of building
...
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NYC Crime Dataset
NYC publishes incident-level data in a similar way as Chicago (but only for felonies, it seems) at https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Public-Safety/NYPD-7-Major-Felony-Incidents/hyij-8hr7
NYC also has ...
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Property ownership data
Doubt you'll find it all in one place, without visiting a city office, but here's some help:
City Lots shapefiles
https://data.sfgov.org/Geographic-Locations-and-Boundaries/City-Lots-Zipped-Shapefile-...
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German municipality-level data (Gemeinde) on demographics
I came across an overview of employees (including demographics such as gender and migratory background) provided by the employment agency. Unfortunately one needs to pay 36 EUR to get it. Please check ...
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