Geocodes of Belgian Cities
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The following comes from
Thomas Hambach.
It contains the GPS coordinates (longitude,
latitude) of all Belgian cities (and villages). Amazing that this
stuff is not freely supplied by e.g. the government. Some sites
actually try to sell this information.
The format is a mysql dump,
of a more recent format that the one found
here with some small but important differences:
- There are no annoying
BOM
bytes at the beginning of the file.
- The datatype of longitude and latitude has been corrected
(widened).
The dump is available in the file beldb.sql.
For finding the coordinates of more specific addresses,
batchgeocode is free and
works nicely.
Dirk Vermeir
(dvermeir@vub.ac.be)
[Last modified:
Tue Nov 4 12:13:33 CET 2008
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