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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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OpenStreetMap: Finding shape dimensions from a query
The problem is that OSM has many nodes and ways on the map, and many of them overlap. I don't know if there is any way to filter data with Nominativ, but you can filter data with Overpass.
First step ...
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Washington, D.C. Shapefile
There is an abundance of open GIS data on Washington, D.C., however they all have distinct characteristics. Your going to have to pick through and select which one(s) fit what you need.
Search Code ...
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Federal, state, and county prisons & jails
You can start with the US Bureau of Justice Statistics: Corrections page.
In particular: State and federal prisoners and prison facilities
And perhaps of interest: Annual Survey of Jails Data ...
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rail track data of the UK as arcs (lines consisting of lat long points)
The UK open data site has datasets for both stations (which you have) and what they call the centre-lines of the railway track for the network. It is in a shapefile.
https://data.gov.uk/dataset/...
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Mapping counties to zip codes
Here are is a very user-friendly collection of Census geography code crosswalk datasets: https://data.world/nrippner/ansi-geographic-codes
And, a complete collection of ZCTA crosswalk tables: https://...
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Australian post code/area shapefiles
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, exact geographic boundaries for the post codes are not well defined. Indeed, the data available from the ABS are re-released periodically. However for ...
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geonames.org data dump seems incomplete compared to its API?
Are you sure that Guatemala City ID3598132 is not in your file ?
I used the version of allCountries.txt found here.
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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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Georeferenced data on animal sightings
There are quite a few wildlife mapping datasets out there, and growing. Narrowing it down to species' is hit or miss, but if its a hit, you will be happily rewarded, as this data tends to be high ...
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ISO 3166-1 and ISO 3166-2 data plus borders (e.g. as kml)
I just created a GitHub repo with a world shapefile of ISO 3166-1 entities, based on Natural Earth 1:10m Cultural Vectors.
https://github.com/sdesabbata/world_shapefile_ISO3166-1
The repo includes ...
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What is the best source for up-to-date postcode locations in the UK?
Ordnance Survey is an open data site you may find helpful.
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Looking for sample lat/long data of thousands of US addresses
Some time on Google brought up this list of 8902 Starbucks around the US: http://www.gpspassion.com/forumsen/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=67416
Here it is as a gist: https://gist.github.com/dankohn/...
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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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rail track data of the UK as arcs (lines consisting of lat long points)
OSM data for England could be useful
http://download.geofabrik.de/europe/great-britain/england.html
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Seeking geographical database that, given coordinate boundaries, returns all the mountain peaks within the boundary, their coordinates, and elevation
I think this is another task for OSM.
Extract data within Polygon or by bounding box
Filter based on tag Peak
See some other questions about using OSM as a datasource, including the Overpass API, by ...
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Shapefile for Petrol Fueling stations across USA
An option may be to scrape websites that contain the location information, these are the one's I'm familiar with:
List of filling stations in North America
All Gas Stations USA
Exxon Mobile ...
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Where can I find USA ocean port FIPS code?
Census' 2015 State, County, Minor Civil Division, and Incorporated Place FIPS Codes (XLSX) spreadsheet or this list compiled by the FCC that lists state and locality codes.
If I understand correctly, ...
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Worldwide database of locations (cities)?
Check out citypopulation.de, a well-curated website of all the world's big citites and agglomerations.
The guy who maintains the site (I think it is only one person, Thomas Brinkhoff - see the Terms ...
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Worldwide database of locations (cities)?
I've developed an online REST service called GeoDB Cities that wraps the GeoNames data (and also leverages WikiData for translations). It should give you exactly what you need.
You'll need to get the ...
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Is there a comprehensive geocoding DB available?
Nominatim has an API that gives data on at the very least the street level. You can provide a latitude and longitude and have an address returned.
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Swiss municipality elevation (altitude)
Here is a possible SPARQL query for Wikidata:
# swiss municipalities with their elevation
SELECT ?muni ?muniLabel (MIN(?elevation) as ?minElevation)
WHERE
{
?muni wdt:P31 wd:Q70208.
FILTER NOT ...
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Longitude and Latitude coverage for the city of Porto
If you need a precise border of the city of Porto in coordinates, then extract a city boundary. Check these pages Getting city boundaries from openstreetmap and Getting polygon boundaries of City in ...
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What "MOUNT_TYPE", "URBN_TYPE", and "COAST_TYPE" represents in European NUTS shape files?
Following the link in the metadata file you arrive here where is states:
Specific geographies such as coastal regions, mountain regions, border
regions or island regions are also covered.
It's does ...
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Seeking carbon geospatial data
It doesn't seem like there is very geograpically detailed data easily available, but at the country level, Our World In Data has sources listed here: https://github.com/owid/co2-data
There are also ...
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Seeking geographical database that, given coordinate boundaries, returns all the mountain peaks within the boundary, their coordinates, and elevation
USGS GNIS Advanced search will allow you to choose a specific state and county and the attribute Summit and get the data for that area within the USA.
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Are coordinates of pixel clicked on Google Maps reusable?
The main issue here is relates to the principal of 'derived data'.
In the example given Joe has opened up Google maps and clicked on a pixel that he has estimated as being the location of the Eiffel ...
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Looking for sample lat/long data of thousands of US addresses
Try this one. It is HUD's dataset on inspection scores for multi-family dwellings providing subsidized housing. There are 20,000 addresses with lat/lon across the US.
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/...
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Sports Clubs & Facilities
A handful of local governments offer datasets like this:
Recreational facilities in San Francisco: https://data.sfgov.org/d/z76i-7s65
Various datasets in Denver:
https://www.denvergov.org/opendata/...
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