Database of world cities (Open Street Map?)
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I spent my afternoon looking for open databases with the most important cities all over the world,

most of them are premium and costs something like $400, but since I'm working on a open source project I would like to use open data, is there somewhere where I can download the name of important cities?

I found open street map but it is 16gb of things such as nodes relations, but I only need name of cities and coordinates,

thank you very much,

g