Data I am looking for

[kato13]

Originally Posted by avantman42

OpenStreetMap will have at least some of that data. You can get a weekly data dump XML file (known as the Planet file). It's big (over 160GB, compressed using bzip2 to around 6GB), but there are mirror sites like Cloudmade. who offer extracts covering individual continents and countries.

Pulling the 6.8 gig file now, but I am hoping that some of the Point of interest extracts will do the trick. Processing a 160 gig file is never fun. Thanks for the pointer. I have like 9 open street maps as part of my system but did not think of using their POI database.