In a message dated 3/31/2010 1:30:39 PM Pacific Daylight Time, jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com writes:
(e) use the Products in a manner that gives you or any other person access to mass downloads or bulk feeds of any Content, including but not limited to numerical latitude or longitude coordinates, imagery, and visible map data;
---Well if I import all the points from wikipedia, it is equivalent to such a mass import.>>
Yes we have examples where a legitimate copyright holder over-extends their claimed rights. Regardless the USGS provides these exact same lat/long points. If you're concerned than use them.
Start here on my page of genealogy tools http://www.countyhistorian.com/cecilweb/index.php/Sources
Near the top there's a link to the USGS called "Find a Town" which takes you here http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=127:1:1089405488282263
You can look for more than just "towns", for example airports, cemeteries, creeks, whatever. For example look for Baptist in Arkansas, Hempstead County and you get eighteen entries with latitude and longitude for the Baptist churches.
W.J.