Global Gazetteer URL

[Robert Spenger]

Felipe,

Great site! And lots of fun for those of us who are map freaks. It did give me
a few problems. My first thought was to look up Santiago de Compostela, so I
clicked on Sa. Then it occurred to me that of all the possible pairs of
letters, this one was guaranteed to produce the largest flood of responses,
which it tried to do. When it reported 99% of the seven hundred or so kb of
data, it hung up and I had to cancel out of Netscape and log back on again.
Pamplona and Roncesvalles both came through,  but the maps did not come up,
just the little pictures with the torn corners that indicate some sort of
problem. That was disappointing, it would have been nice to get the maps
themselves. On the plus side, having the elevations was an unexpected bonus.

I see that the rest of the world is also available from this site, but I was
surprised that the U.S. was not in the list of countries available. I wouldn't
need it, since there are a couple of extensive mapping services available for
the U.S., but I don't understand why it isn't listed on this site.

I notice that this site reports that it has data for just under three million
places. It was just about the same number in the data base that I was using,
Meridian World Data.

regards,

Robert

Felipe Sanchez wrote:

> Ayyyy!!!  Se me fue la honda.....Sorry everyone....here is the URL
>
> http://www.calle.com/world/spain/index.html
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Felipe Sanchez" <felipsanaOLYPEN.COM>
> To: <GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU>
> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 11:43 PM
> Subject: Guidance in Perilous Times
>
> > For those of you interested in geographical coordinates, a good friend
> (yes,
> > I have one) sent me the following URL of almost 39,000 cities, towns, and
> > villages in Spain together with the associated longitude and latitude.
> This
> > address is a "Palm Pilot's Paradise."  Sanchez
> >