Structured data-sets about geographical locations?

1 pointsby devs101014 anni fa3 comments

I'm new to looking for this sort of resource and am not having much luck so far. Basically, I have an interest in having programmatic access to a semantic dataset (would think most likely from a government resource) where I can get data on geographical locations (such as a specific beach, for example or a city). Most basic example is that for a city would have population info, etc..

Any resources for this to get me pointed in the right direction would be appreciated.

3 comments

Someone14 anni fa

For data aggregated by country, http://data.un.org is a good source.

redspark14 anni fa

data.gov for the US. Not sure about other countries.

devs101014 anni fa

Thanks, yes US is the country I'm primarily interested in