First day at your first job.
Your boss arrives at your table and asks you to get him a Shapefile with point locations of the following places: Wageningen, Amsterdam, Fuji, Lima, Bennekom, Cairo.
Before lunch.
Oh, and by the way, the list of places might vary. Or not.
Hint: make a text file with the city names; use an online service for geocoding.
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