Geo: All geo coordinates from Wikipedia
Stefan Kühn, a cartographer at the University Trier, Germany, has extracted all the geo coordinates embedded in articles on [Wikipedia->http://www.wikipedia.com/]. The [WikiProject Geographical coordinates->http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Geographical_coordinates] is a Wikipedia project for ensuring standardized geocoding of locations in its articles.
Google Earth fans bent on instant gratification can simply download a KMZ file and start surfing. But more importantly, coders and infoviz geeks can get a comma-separated text file (CSV) with coordinates, titles and Wikipedia categories for all points.
Link: [Geocoordinates from Wikipedia for Google Earth->http://www.webkuehn.de/hobbys/wikipedia/geokoordinaten/index_en.htm]
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Category: electronic culture, information design, mapping
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