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About GeoNames

The GeoNames geographical database is available for download free of charge under a creative commons attribution license. It contains over 25 million geographical names and consists of over 11 million unique features whereof 4.8 million populated places and 13 million alternate names. All features are categorized into one out of nine feature classes and further subcategorized into one out of 645 feature codes. (more statistics ...).The data is accessible free of charge through a number of webservices and a daily database export. GeoNames is already serving up to over 150 million web service requests per day.

GeoNames is integrating geographical data such as names of places in various languages, elevation, population and others from various sources. All lat/long coordinates are in WGS84 (World Geodetic System 1984). Users may manually edit, correct and add new names using a user friendly wiki interface.GeoNames has Ambassadors in many countries who assist with their help and expertise.

Source: https://www.geonames.org/about.html

Start: End: Publication Date: 2021-09-07

Organization: GeoNames (GNMS)

Stakeholders:

Unxos GmbH

Description:GeoNames is a project of Unxos GmbH, Waechlenstrasse 17, 8832 Wollerau, Switzerland.

GeoNames Team

Marc Wick

Description:Founder

Christophe Boutreux

Description:Developer

GeoNames Ambassadors

Martin Sarsale

Description:Argentina | Blog Web Semantica

William (Bill) Smith

Description:Australia

Charles Elliott

Description:Australia

Roland Oth

Description:Austria

Dr. Md. Shahedur Rashid

Description:Bangladesh | Professor, Department of Geography and Environment,Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka-1342

Gerjan Grootenboer

Description:Belgium

Carlos Medrano

Description:Bolivia | La Paz

Fuad Curcic

Description:Bosnia and Herzegovina

Edmar Moretti

Description:Brazil

Roman Rachkov

Description:Bulgaria

Aaron Lambie

Description:Canada | President / CEO of SpatialQ Inc.

Marc Belzunces

Description:Catalan Linguistic Area: Andorra, Northern Catalonia (France), Catalonia, Balearic Islands, Valencian Comunity (Spain) | Barcelona (blog)

Pablo Morales

Description:Chile

Rong Shen

Description:China

Luis Molina

Description:Colombia Ariel Núñez

Marek Prokop

Description:Czech Republic

Elier Delgado Alvarez

Description:Cuba

Steve McCabe

Description:Dominica and eastern Caribbean

Alemayehu Negash

Description:Ethiopia

Peeter Päll

Description:Estonia

Luistxo Fernandez

Description:The Basque Country (Spain, France) | Tagzania

Henri Bergius

Description:Finland

Christophe Boutreux

Description:France | Christophe works as a freelance IT consultant in Paris.

Antonio Fraga

Description:Galicia, Spain | SIGNO S.L

Lukas Eipert

Description:Germany

Emmanuel Okyere

Description:Ghana

Luistxo Fernandez

Description:Gipuzkoa, Spain | Tagzania

Petros Vassiliou

Description:Greece

Asiaq Greenland Survey

Description:Greenland

Henrik Forsberg

Description:Greenland

Lilla Lukás

Description:Hungary

Antal Guszlev

Description:Hungary

Hungarian Toponymic Portal

Sasi Raj

Description:India | An E-commerce consultant working as an editor for a leading technology company at Chennai.

Aashish Chaudhary

Description:India

L.T. Hardanto

Description:Indonesia

Barry Hunter

Description:Ireland

Yuval Kogman

Description:Israel | JAPH

Giuseppe Bottasini

Description:Italy | Founder Flags of the World Blog

Dottson Bando

Description:Jamaica

Carsten Schwesig

Description:Japan

Hussein Al-Olimat

Description:Jordan

Paul Mungai

Description:Kenia

Sangchul Ahn

Description:Korea, South | Letsee Inc.

Sven Clement

Description:Luxembourg

Aleksandar Velkovski

Description:Macedonia

Georg Kloeble

Description:Malawi | Wildlife Action Group

Mohd Shahir Shamsir

Description:Malaysia | Bioinformatics Research Group (BIRG) Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Ameer Dawood

Description:Maldives

Eduardo Alessio

Description:Mexico

Karim Chraibi

Description:Morocco

Bas de Lange

Description:Netherlands

Uche Ogbuji

Description:Nigeria | Partner at Zepheira, lead on the Akara project. Born in Nigeria, presently living in Superior, Colorado, Uche Ogbuji works on many open source projects regarding open data, Web architecture and semantic technology. He also writes prolifically on these topics.

Erik Bolstad

Description:Norway

Erik Bolstad

Description:Norway | Erik Bolstad is the editor of yr.no, an online weather site from the Norwegian Broadcasting Corp. and the Norwegian Meteorological Institute. Erik is a journalist and web interaction specialist, with a keen interest in geography and languages.

Manish Modi

Description:Nepal | Janaki Technology Pvt. Ltd.

Richard Hancock

Description:New Zealand

Imran Anwar

Description:Pakistan | writer, TV personality, entrepreneur. He brought Email and the Web to Pakistan, and now GeoNames.

Mark Ibanez

Description:Philippines | Proprietor of M1 Software Solutions www.m1-software.net

Filip Stopinski

Description:Poland

Daniel Barradas

Description:Portugal

Razvan Alexa

Description:Romania

Andrew Panin

Description:Russia

Martin Vojčík

Description:Slovakia

Simon Novak

Description:Slovenia

Abdi Ahmed

Description:Somalia

Christo Du Preez

Description:South Africa

Paul Scott

Description:South Africa

F. Javier López-Pellicer

Description:Spain

IAAA Laboratory

Description:Spain | Centro Politécnico Superior, University of Zaragoza (Zaragoza, Spain)

Marc Wick

Description:Switzerland

Dongpo Deng

Description:Taiwan

Dinçer Kavraal

Description:Turkey

Vladislav Gorodetskiy

Description:Ukraine

Barry Hunter

Description:United Kingdom

Carey Gister

Description:United States

Alexander Torrenegra

Description:United States

Francisco Ferreiro

Description:Uruguay

Sherzod Rakhmonov

Description:Uzbekistan

Abdulla A. Faris

Description:Yemen

GeoNames

Description:Most important sources:

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Description:nga : National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA) and the U.S. Board on Geographic Names

U.S. Board on Geographic Names

U.S. Geological Survey

Description:gnis : U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System (names in US).

Ordnance Survey

Description:Ordnance Survey OpenData ~ http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/ * gazetteer: Contains Ordnance Survey data Crown copyright and database right 2010.* gazetteer: Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v1.0.* postal codes: Contains Royal Mail data Royal Mail copyright and database right 2010.

GeoBase

Description:GeoBase - Canadian Geographical Names (names in CA)

gtopo30

Description:(elevation)

Submitter: Owen Ambur (Owen.Ambur@verizon.net)

Vision

Open, freely accessible geodata

Mission

To provide a geographical database

Goal Geographical Data

Integrate geographical data such as names of places in various languages, elevation, population and others

Objective 1: Search