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<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Thanks. This is great.
In the end, if we agree to go this way -- i.e. setting aside
some cities according to an agreed upon set of characteristics
-- we need to find a credible list to work from. <br>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">In addition to what
you have posted here, we might also be able to use this list of
large cities <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/pdf/urbanization/the_worlds_cities_in_2016_data_booklet.pdf">http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/pdf/urbanization/the_worlds_cities_in_2016_data_booklet.pdf
</a></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">(which is
derived from a larger database) and World Population Sources <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/">https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/
</a><br>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Marita</font><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/28/2018 2:09 PM, Christa Taylor
wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Hello,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">I'm sure there is a lot of big data
resources available. Below are a few datasets that I hope
provide some insight into what is available. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoPlainText" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">GNIS
(Geographic Names Information Systems) has a list of ~250k
names along with a some features. <a
href="https://hifld-geoplatform.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/c19bfaccfc7c473d861dbbea1ce7aff0_0/data?orderBy=state_alpha&page=14"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://hifld-geoplatform.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/c19bfaccfc7c473d861dbbea1ce7aff0_0/data?orderBy=state_alpha&page=14</a>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoPlainText" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Geonames
is another resource <a href="http://www.geonames.org/"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.geonames.org/</a> <o:p></o:p></li>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoPlainText" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">The
UN looks like they also have a geospatial resource <a
href="http://un-ggim-europe.org/content/wg-a-core-data"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://un-ggim-europe.org/content/wg-a-core-data</a>
with a paper at <a
href="http://un-ggim-europe.org/sites/default/files/UN-GGIM-Europe_WGA_Recommandation_Content-GN-v1.0.pdf"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://un-ggim-europe.org/sites/default/files/UN-GGIM-Europe_WGA_Recommandation_Content-GN-v1.0.pdf</a>
<o:p></o:p></li>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in"><i>"This
document aims to help decision makers (from governments,
data producers, national coordination bodies, etc.) to
define their policy regarding the improvement of existing
data and production of new geospatial data. It addresses
digital data".<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Big data is also used to create a lot of
mapping functionality as another resource i.e. Google maps.<i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">If there is a list of some
requirements/ideas that might be useful, I’m happy to help in
finding a dataset and if needed, putting the data into a
useable format so it can be reviewed to see it is fits our
purposes.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Christa<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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From: Gnso-newgtld-wg-wt5
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To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-wg-wt5@icann.org">gnso-newgtld-wg-wt5@icann.org</a><br>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">I repeatedly see this claim made <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> In the age of big data that should be
simple. [Finding Cities geo names etc.]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Any facts to back this up?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> jaap<o:p></o:p></p>
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