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Re:Show HN: Free database of geographic place names and geos... by IanCal on Friday September 25, 2015 @05:26AM (#10277093)
Looks interesting, how would you compare it to GeoNames?
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Re:Show HN: Free database of geographic place names and geos... by marco1 on Friday September 25, 2015 @06:40PM (#10281151)
Admittedly, it's similar! But we wanted to include more data, other data, and just offer an alternative in general.

Three things we definitely wanted were (1) complete boundaries, (2) easiest programmatic access and (3) efficient collaboration.

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