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Stories tagged with: geography
Geonames
http://www.geonames.org/
The GeoNames gazetteer includes over 8.5 million toponyms for 6.5 million places with 2 million alternate names in up to 200 languages. The information for places covers coordinates, administrative divisions, postal codes, population, elevation, timezone amongst others. GeoNames aggregates data from national mapping agencies, national statistical offices, national postal services as well as the US Army.
GeoNames answers questions such as: where is a place? what are its coordinates? which region
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Tags: find+places, postal+codes, geography
strange maps
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/
Really great blog: we see the world how we map it.
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Tags: blog, maps, geography, politics, Culture
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