Geonames.org
This
site comes as close as it can to what I would like to set-up (if I had
the time and money): a collection of names for places, with lat/long and some
other info, editable for everyone,
downloadbale…
site comes as close as it can to what I would like to set-up (if I had
the time and money): a collection of names for places, with lat/long and some
other info, editable for everyone,
downloadbale…

And
some cool additional features:
Country
listing:
The name of a country in different
languages:
And
a webservice for country information, which lets
you specify the
language:
Just
look for populated places (and not other entities like
train stations
etc.).
And
a list of
webservices: