Finding latitude and longitude of many places once

Question

I have a long list of towns and cities, and I'd like to add latitude and longitude information to each of them.

Does anyone know the easiest way to generate this information once?

See also Geocode multiple addresses

Answer 1

The first part of the third video shows how to get latitude and Longitude using Google Refine and geocoding. No need to write a new script. Ideal for doing this kind of change once.

http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/

Answer 2

Or use www.geonames.org - there's language APIs for that. Or Open Street Map's Nominatim: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim - google have slightly more restrictive terms of service.