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What's the advantage of this over the geonames database (CC-BY) which seems to be more comprehensive ?
Probably licensing. This one's public domain. It is indeed extremely incomplete.
Is that too restrictive?
See my issue report: https://github.com/geraldb/world.db/issues/1
Also, please teach him something about database normalization. e.g. capital should not be a flag of cities, but a foreign key of regions and countries. Cities, Regions and countries should be combined into one table, with a foreign keys pointing up and down the chain, from world down to suburb level.
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Probably licensing. This one's public domain. It is indeed extremely incomplete.
The GeoNames geographical database is available for download free of charge under a creative commons attribution license. Is that too restrictive?
For someone who doesn't want to have a "credits" page in their app, sure.
How hard would it be to generate that kind of data from Wikipedia ?
you'd still get CC-BY data from wikipedia, rather than public domain, I believe
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you'd still get CC-BY data from wikipedia, rather than public domain, I believe
Not if it's just data. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural
If the Heroku app is up to date, there are only 62 countries and 126 cities and all names are in German. I think this should have been mentioned in the Github page.