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I need a suggestion. My site will have international users. One of the features the site contains is a world map of all of the members in little red dots. This map uses long / lat coordinates.

 

I downloaded a 800mb flat file that contains all towns in all countries and their coordinates. I figured I would also need to make the sign up form fields drop down menus pulling from this same large table instead of giving them the option to type in their city, etc.

 

Before I go with this method? Does anyone have any suggestions on a better way to do this? I am really bad about complicating things. It seemed like a lot, storing all of the world data in my MySQL database. What do other people do?

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