Re: Mapping Longitude and Latitude to a city value.
From: Theo Peterbroers <peterbroers_at_floron.leidenuniv.nl>
Date: 4 Jul 2002 03:48:55 -0700
Message-ID: <39bb2c10.0207040248.17748624_at_posting.google.com>
Date: 4 Jul 2002 03:48:55 -0700
Message-ID: <39bb2c10.0207040248.17748624_at_posting.google.com>
pmclinn_at_mclinn.com (Peter) wrote in message news:<c4e93d03.0207031003.4bdacc52_at_posting.google.com>...
> I have a longitude and latitude stamp on several records. I'm trying
> to find a way to change these values into City values. Without buying
> software.
>
> Example: x/y = Boston
>
> All I care about is the city level. I have been looking at the tiger
> database and was hoping someone would know how to accomplish this task
> using that resource. I also noticed a city/zip 1999 database.
>
> How can I map these numbers to these know fields in Tiger?
>
> Any ideas?
A WWW search on "gazeteer" or "gazetteer" will return the data you need (linking lat/long to placenames). Received on Thu Jul 04 2002 - 12:48:55 CEST