NOTES.md

Quick Notes

clean up and move to SOURCES, PLACES, etc.

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http://www.geodatasource.com/cities-free.html http://worldcitiesdatabase.info/ http://www.worldcitiesdatabase.com/

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http://www.worldstadiums.com

example

• uses "continents" like lonley planet, that is,

  Europe (minus Georgia, Armenia & Azerbaijan) Middle East (w/ Egypt from Africa, Turkey & North Cyprus plus Georgia, Armenia & Azerbaijan from Europe) Africa (minus Egypt listed in Middle East) Asia (minus Middle East countries) North America Central America South America Oceania (includes Australia)

• Turkey is listed twice in Europe & Middle East

• check - Mexico included in north america? - yes

•   - middle east - what countries
    - europe w/ russia? yes turkey? yes cyprus? yes georgia? no (middle east) etc.
    - oceania w/ australia?? - yes
  

Central America: see http://www.worldstadiums.com/middle_america/maps/middle_america.shtml

Anguilla (1) Antigua & Barbuda (4) Aruba (1) Bahamas (2) Barbados (2) Belize (9) Bonaire (2) Cayman Islands (5) Costa Rica (28) Cuba (10) Curaçao (2) Dominica (2) Dominican Republic (14) El Salvador (17) Grenada (2) Guadeloupe (12)

Guatemala (42) Haiti (4) Honduras (40) Jamaica (15) Martinique (3) Montserrat (1) Nicaragua (19) Panamá (17) Puerto Rico (16) St. Kitts & Nevis (2) St. Lucia (4) St. Vincent (2) Trinidad & Tobago (9) Turks & Caicos (1) Virgin Islands (5

middle east: see http://www.worldstadiums.com/middle_east/maps/middle_east.shtml

Armenia (34) Azerbaijan (31) Bahrain (6) Egypt (27) Georgia (17) Iran (67) Iraq (36) Israel (35) Jordan (7) Kuwait (13) Lebanon (23) North Cyprus (13) Oman (8) Palestine (12) Qatar (11) Saudi Arabia (21) Syria (9) Turkey (185) UAE (25) Yemen (

oceania: see http://www.worldstadiums.com/oceania/maps/oceania.shtml

Australia (189) New Zealand (42)

American Samoa (1) Cook Islands (1) Fiji (17) French Polynesia (4) Guam (3) Kiribati (1) Marshall Islands (1) Micronesia (2) Nauru (4) New Caledonia (1) Niue (2) Norfolk Islands (0) Northern Mariana (2) Palau (1) Papua New Guinea (3) Pitcairn (0) Samoa (2) Solomon Islands (1) Tokelau (1) Tonga (2) Tuvalu (1) Vanuatu (1) Wallis & Futuna (

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world.db

see for regions -> en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Europe

see world regions -> www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations pacific, north america, central america, south america, caribbean (islands) middle east, europe, africa

countries in europe (lonley planet) -> http://www.lonelyplanet.com/europe/places nb: includes cyprus, georgia, azerbaijan (does NOT include usbekistan)

http://en.db-city.com/Austria--Lower-Austria -- for world.db links

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world.db

continent codes per country (iso mapping?)

• http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/codes/country_continent

• check two letter contintent codes (exists for central amercia?

• check cyprus - eu?

• check turkey - eu?

• check australia - asia or oceania? etc.

• http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/codes/iso3166 includes average lat/longtitude and more (Source: CIA World Factbook)

check free geolite db download

• http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geolite

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djangogeo project docu

• https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/ref/contrib/gis/tutorial/#geographic-data

http://www.43places.com

• uses continents like lonley planet ??? e.g. North America, Central America (And The Caribbean), South America, Middle East, Asia, Australia/Oceania, Africa, Europe, Antartica