Find good cities database

[Scimonster]

Requirements for a city DB:

• Must work in both Node and browser
• Must recognize Israel's borders (this throws out pretty much everything :()

[mjradwin]

Hebcal.com is using geonames.org data. It's free and pretty useful.

[Scimonster]

Yeah, you mentioned on hebcal/hebcal#85. Their Node version is at jacoblwe20/geode. I have a couple of issues with it:

• It requires a login, and i would prefer that Hebcal could be run while disconnected from the internet (as i very often am).
• It thinks i live on an Israeli "settlement", and i refuse to use something like that.

[Scimonster]

At the very least, as of 48c43a2 it uses the "fractional number" format instead of deg/mins. (Funny commit message about the terminology there. :P)

[MosheBerman]

So build up your own. (I started that with MBPlacePickerController - see the json file.

Also, with browsers basically able to request user location access, is this really necessary?