I came across this brilliant site called "Geonames.org"
- a Geographical database for download free of charge containing
over eight million geographical names. The site allows you to search for any city
or place or postal code and the best part is all of this is also available through
a number of webservices and a daily database
export. This can be useful while you are developing a website and have to get
input of a city or determine a place in a transaction.
Check out these examples:
-
Chennai
-
600017 (Postal
Code in India)
GeoNames was founded by Marc Wick. Marc is a self-employed software engineer living
in Switzerland. Thanks to Marc Wick & the other volunteers of the site.
Read the complete post at http://www.venkatarangan.com/blog/2008/06/13/Geonames.aspx