Global Cities Database Product Summary

Global Cities Database enables you to access information on over 2.5 million cities world wide. Integrating this database into your services will facilitate simple and accurate retrieval of geographic details including: distance between cities, latitude and longitude, and radius calculations. GCDB is a perfect solution for any application requiring distance calculation of cities, finding a list of cities within a specific radius from a central point, or to place points of cities in a custom mapping solution.

Global Cities Database Features

Distance Calculator: This feature calculates the distances between locations based on country, first-order administrative divisions (states, regions, provinces, etc... depending on the country) and city, using the standard FIPS codes.
Radius Search: This search gives names and location of all cities within any given radius of the target location.
Coordinate Calculator: Our data allows you to incorporate graphical mapping functions into your own custom applications by defining geographic coordinates.

Global Cities Database Compatibility Requirements

All data in GCDB is encoded in ASCII and distributed in compressed CSV (Comma Separated Value) files, so you can use it with your database of choice.

WinZip or similar PKzip archive extraction utility
Database software application that can import 2.5 million records from a standard comma-delimited ASCII text file (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server or other similar packages)
Microsoft Excel, Access, notepad, or other similar text-editing utilities

Global Cities Database Benefits

Our pre-populated drop-down lists will solve all problems of misspelled and variant names, and will allow quick calculations without error. User imputed entries for any given location may vary greatly and create a database 10 or more times as big as the number of locations included within it.
For Example: The entries in your database for the single location New York City, New York may look like this (given there are no spelling mistakes):

New York, New York USA
New York, New York United States of America
New York, New York U.S.A.
New York, NY USA
New York, NY United States of America
New York, NY U.S.A.
N.Y., N.Y. USA
N.Y., N.Y. US
…etc.

GCDB takes care of this problem and ensures all search entries are valid and located successfully.

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	Home Products Demo Code Samples Contact HOME Global Cities Database Product Summary Global Cities Database enables you to access information on over 2.5 million cities world wide. Integrating this database into your services will facilitate simple and accurate retrieval of geographic details including: distance between cities, latitude and longitude, and radius calculations. GCDB is a perfect solution for any application requiring distance calculation of cities, finding a list of cities within a specific radius from a central point, or to place points of cities in a custom mapping solution. Global Cities Database Features Distance Calculator: This feature calculates the distances between locations based on country, first-order administrative divisions (states, regions, provinces, etc... depending on the country) and city, using the standard FIPS codes. Radius Search: This search gives names and location of all cities within any given radius of the target location. Coordinate Calculator: Our data allows you to incorporate graphical mapping functions into your own custom applications by defining geographic coordinates. Global Cities Database Compatibility Requirements All data in GCDB is encoded in ASCII and distributed in compressed CSV (Comma Separated Value) files, so you can use it with your database of choice. WinZip or similar PKzip archive extraction utility Database software application that can import 2.5 million records from a standard comma-delimited ASCII text file (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server or other similar packages) Microsoft Excel, Access, notepad, or other similar text-editing utilities Global Cities Database Benefits Our pre-populated drop-down lists will solve all problems of misspelled and variant names, and will allow quick calculations without error. User imputed entries for any given location may vary greatly and create a database 10 or more times as big as the number of locations included within it. For Example: The entries in your database for the single location New York City, New York may look like this (given there are no spelling mistakes): New York, New York USA New York, New York United States of America New York, New York U.S.A. New York, NY USA New York, NY United States of America New York, NY U.S.A. N.Y., N.Y. USA N.Y., N.Y. US …etc. GCDB takes care of this problem and ensures all search entries are valid and located successfully. Click here to see product demo