During my web surfing this week I came across two useful geography
resources loaded with data. These may be useful when researching a city or country for travel planning purposes:
This one reminds me of ePodunk, and although it may not be as strong a product
(based on quick comparisons searches only), I do like the photos feature on city-data. Look up a small town you know,
maybe your hometown — see if there are photos for it. If not, you could possibly win something for submitting a few
pixs during a limited time-promo they are running. Other features: their
random city photos and
top 100 lists.
This Library of Congress site lists detailed profiles on selected countries, completed for the Federal Research
program. I have not yet figured out why all countries are not included, but they do code the profiles so you know which
have been updated recently. Maybe they will just keep adding and updating profiles till they are all there? I pulled up
the PDF on Romania — 22 pages of info on Romania’s politics, geography, history and infrastructure, updated in July
2005. Bingo.