Yes, its good to have a closer look at the numbers involved :-) I found the habitual part of Earth to be 24,642,757 square miles [0]. A square mile = 2589988.1

Yes, its good to have a closer look at the numbers involved :-) I found the habitual part of Earth to be 24,642,757 square miles [0]. A square mile = 2589988.11 square meter [Google]. So that comes close to 7.1 trillion locations. It results in 7000 Gb for each byte stored. This makes me wonder if there is some kind of algorithm is involved. The location names seem randomly but might not be. Maybe its only random for the superficial observer. Which could mean with a sufficient big enough sample the algorithm can be found. Maybe even a relative small dataset with locations close to each other could work already. [0] = http://www.zo.utexas.edu/courses/THOC/land.html http://www.zo.utexas.edu/courses/THOC/land.html