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Inquest750 wrote:
> I'm not worried about counties the way this is going to be broken up
> is continents/countries/states,territories,provinces(all are equal for
> the purposes that I am using)/major cities and well populated or
> traveled cities that I choose i don't need to be very intricate as far
> as that goes, i also will have minimal data going in to each section,
> like population and stupid little facts like that I just need
> something simple, I'm not looking to get crazy into detail about
> locations or anything like that...simplicity that can be used and
> manipulated to pull up into web pages and can be used to sort and
> search, if anyone has a database like this or knows where i can get
> one i would be more than happy to discuss a price to make my life that
> much easier....
Likely what you are asking for, if someone does have it, is copywrited.
I'd suggest checking with mapping companies, companies selling atlases, the United Nations, etc.
BTW: The easy solution to the problem posted by Van Messner is to put everything into a single table and use CONNECT BY or a similar means of walking the tree. It is really rather straight forward.
-- Daniel Morgan http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/oad/oad_crs.asp http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/aoa/aoa_crs.asp damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply)Received on Fri Mar 05 2004 - 10:19:47 CST
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