You can download the database that is used to update Wikipedia (bots do that job): http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Georeferenzierung/Wikiped

You can download the database that is used to update Wikipedia (bots do that job): http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Georeferenzierung/Wikipedia-World/en http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Georefere... 3.54 million entries in 273 languages with Cities, GPS coordinates, ZIP codes, and a lot of more - all free and up-to-date. It's a project of German Wikipedia, but the website is in English and the data is used by all Wikipedia instances.