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Subject:        Re: Smaller city populations/coordinates: GIS data
Date:   Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:49:47 -0700
From:   Jon Jablonski <[log in to unmask]>
Organization:   University of Oregon
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I made a point file a few months ago using fields from the GNIS.  One of
the fields is 'populated place'.  Looking back at that file, I don't see
anything that would indicate population.  But if you do find an
uber-text list of cities + population, you should be able to join it to
the uber-list of place names and our will pop your shapefile.

You can download plain text of the full GNIS from an ftp site--I can
scare that up for you if you'd like.

-jon
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Jon R. Jablonski                          541-346-3051
Associate Professor
David & Nancy Petrone MAP/GIS Librarian
University of Oregon Libraries

Maps-L Moderator for Julie Sweetkind Singer wrote, On 4/15/2009 6:12 AM:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:        Smaller city populations/coordinates: GIS data
> Date:   Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:22:30 -0700 (PDT)
> From:   Julie Sweetkind-Singer <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To:       Julie Sweetkind-Singer <[log in to unmask]>
> To:     GIS for Libraries <[log in to unmask]>, MAPS-L
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>
> Hi, all,
>
> Apologies for cross posting.
>
> I have a student looking for population data for smaller cities (less
> than 500,000) around the world in a format that can be used with
> ArcGIS.  I've got a solid resource for cities over half a million, as
> well as individual data for countries such as China and India.  Anyone
> know of a good source?  We need city name, population, latitude/longitude.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Julie
>
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