Hi, For the purpose of identifying geographical co-ordinates of certain places, I use the National Imagery and Mapping Agency's (NIMA) database at http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/index.html The completeness at least in europe is absolutely impressive. So far, I haven't been able to find any village that is not contained in that database. Drawback: This site does not contain entries for the US, but I reckon that a link takes you the US database. Rainer Kresken