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Re:Show HN: Free database of geographic place names and geos... by Crocode on Friday September 25, 2015 @11:07AM (#10278573)
The data like these are available for free (and updated by community!) for years. See http://www.geonames.org/

Numerous website use the Geonames dataset foe there work. (I also partisipated in this madness: http://www.wemakemaps.com/)

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Re:Show HN: Free database of geographic place names and geos... by datamongers on Friday September 25, 2015 @01:02PM (#10279296)
I've not see http://www.wemakemaps.com/ before, looks like a cool site, but whats with consistently referring to OpenStreetMap as OpenMap? and how about adding proper attribution on the OSM maps?
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