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Re: i need help please

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 08:19:47 -0800
Message-ID: <1078503552.312771@yasure>


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.

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Daniel Morgan
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Received on Fri Mar 05 2004 - 10:19:47 CST

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