Any online database api to fetch city names from first few chars?

[nish]

Hi..

I have a line edit in which user can type a city name(even first few chars of the name). I need to give him the list of all possible city names.. for eg.

user types...
"New"

so i should give a list of cities like
"New Delhi"
"New York"
...
..
etc

for this i cant supply the database with the app.
do anyone knows some online database service which can return the names?

some thing like.. i call
QHttp::get("http://www.someserver.com/getSimilarCities?like=New");

please help..

thx.

[lyuts]

If i'm understanding you correctly, then take a look at QCompleter
http://doc.trolltech.com/4.4/qcompleter.html

[nish]

you got me wrong...

displaying of data is not a problem... i can use qcompleter, or even just list the contents anywhere...

the problem is where to get the data?..

imagine it like this...

i send a query to my email server to give me the headers of new emails... and the server provides me the list.

similary i want to know weather there exists some free service (server) on the internet which can send me the suggested list of cities for my query.?

[lyuts]

Google knows almost everything. How come you didn't find this?
http://www.travelgis.com/cities/

[spirit]

he asked about web service that he can use to get a city name using SOAP.

[nish]

he asked about web service that he can use to get a city name using SOAP.

ya.. exactly..

I am designing a weather widget...
now to get the weather for a particular city i post a query to google as

QHttp::get("http://www.google.co.in/ig/api?weather=London");

open your browser and type this url
http://www.google.co.in/ig/api?weather=London

you will get a xml document...

so that is fine...

now my user will type a city name which he may misspell...
on many weather sites if you misspell the city name.. they provide the list of suggestions...

i want to know the some free RSS feeds or xml(like google above) or anything servers, which can return the suggestion list...


hope i am clear this time...

but thx for the help you guys...