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World Locate from Collins Bartholomew is an extremely detailed, authoritative and accurate geo-referenced database of 2.5 million world place names. Its rich content and easy-to-use structure will enable you to perform both simple and complex geo-locating tas ks. It will also provide all the information necessary to build or enhance any location-based internet search facility.
Additional information Collins Bartholomew’s dedicated team of geographical experts continuously monitor and authenticate the changes happening in our world to ensure the integrity and accuracy of World Locate is maintained.

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Locate extractions Bespoke country/continent extractions from all versions of Locate are available on request.
Key functions
  • Online place name searching made easy and effective through inclusion of variant name forms
  • Unique identifier allows seamless integration with Collins Bartholomew vector data products
  • Includes physical feature distinction to allow these features (lakes, mountains and rivers), etc to be located
  • Use to calculate the straight line distance between two or more locations

Contacts If you would like to discuss World Locate or any other product requirements you may have please contact us. Our team will be pleased to deal with your enquiries.
Product versions We understand that our customers have their own unique requirements, so we’ve developed a choice of 3 core products that all offer 2.5 million records, but include different levels of associated geographic information.

Key Facts
  • Covers all countries, territories and sovereign states around the world
  • Latitude/longitude coordinates for all places
  • Each town is assigned to its first order administrative division where possible
  • Every town is assigned to a population band
  • Every town is assigned its administrative significance e.g. national capital, first-order capital, second-order capital, in some cases down to fourth order
  • All names (except country names and international features) are in local form, with the English name and other alternatives included for fail-safe searching
  • ISO codes for countries and administrative divisions
  • Includes physical features
  • Uniquely, for major islands, significant towns show which island they are located on
  • More languages and alternative names added with each release
  • Available in colon-delimited Ascii text format, for easy integration within a wide variety of software applications (other formats may be available on request)
  • Updated quarterly