Longitude Latitude Database

July 29, 2009 10:26 AM

A few years ago I had bookmarked a website that had a very plain search feature that allowed you to search names of all sorts of geographical whathaveyou and gave a table complete with longitude and latitude coordinates. I believe this site was US-centric (might have been USGS but I looked and failed) although it was possible to search for anything, world-wide. Ring any bells?
posted by AdamOddo to grab bag (5 comments total)

The USGS has a Geographic Names Information System lookup form which seems to return a variety of types of things (cities, schools, radio towers, bodies of water, etc.).
posted by letourneau at 10:40 AM on July 29 [1 favorite]

Google Squared lets you get results back in row and column format, and then add more columns to the result set.
posted by axismundi at 11:54 AM on July 29

TerraServer?
posted by heather-b at 11:56 AM on July 29

For just places there's the US Census Gazetteer, which just happened to be open in a tab in my browser as I saw this:

http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer
posted by ydant at 1:50 PM on July 29

letourneau: Dead on. Many thanks to you.
posted by AdamOddo at 10:27 PM on July 29