Lutz Kretzschmar wrote:
> ...
> I also wrote a program that queries the online database at USGS for
> the lat/long of the US cities (don't fancy finding 600 pairs by
> hand<g>).
> 
> I'm currently looking for a website that can do lat/long lookup for
> non-US cities and that can be queried directly, i.e. with an HTTP
> request. No luck so far.

You might take a look at Home Planet at
http://www.fourmilab.ch/homeplanet/ - the lookup for nearest big city
(worldwide) might be extractable.  If not, perhaps the DB is.  Even if
you can't use the city DB, the program itself is pretty nice...

Xander

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