BAS GEO1 is a simple database about the most important location names of Germany, Austria and Switzerland together with their canonical pronunciation coded in SAMPA. BAS GEO1 may be used as a basis for automatic speech recognition of German postal addresses or to feed a speech synthesis algorithm. Future updates will be distributed to all users automatically (if a valid email address is provided). BAS GEO1 contains 3 data sets: o List of all locations with the following fields: * Location ID * Gemeinde name * Gemeinde name pronunciation * Postal code * Location name * Location name pronunciation * Kreis name * Kreis name pronunciation * State name * State name pronunciation * Car code * Phone area code * Population (in 2003) o A list of all street names: * Street ID * Street name * Street name pronunciation o A mapping of Locations to Streets: * Location ID * Street ID