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Revision as of 16:29, 30 July 2014

Introduction

This page is designed to provide a useful list of country-level or international gazetteers as well as other geographic resources for verifying place names and/or geopolitical units.


Gazetteers

Name URL Description
GEOnet http://geonames.nga.mil/ggmagaz/ Find coordinates for places outside of the U.S. as well as the political division it is located within.
USGS-GNIS http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/ Find coordinates for places within the U.S. and its territories as well as on Antarctica.
WDPA-UN http://www.wdpa.org/ Find national parks, reserves & protected areas along with their respective coordinates and areas.
Fuzzy Gazetteer http://dma.jrc.it/services/fuzzyg/ Find places around the world mainly utilizing GEOnet data by performing fuzzy searching. Useful for place name misspellings.
CGNDB http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/search/search_e.php Find coordinates for places within Canada.
Geoscience Australia http://www.ga.gov.au/map/names/ Find coordinates for places within Australia.
Ordnance Survey http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/ Find towns within the UK but no coordinates available.
streetmap http://www.streetmap.co.uk/ Find places within Great Britain but no coordinates available.
diddlefinger http://diddlefinger.com/ Find coordinates for places within Japan in English.
Géoportail http://www.geoportail.fr Find coordinates for places within France and its territories.
NZGPD http://www.linz.govt.nz/placenames/find-names/ Find coordinates for places within New Zealand. New gazetteer is in a spreadsheet but the old resource is a database that is many times more informative.
INEGI http://www.inegi.org.mx/geo/contenidos/geoestadistica/CatalogoClaves.aspx Find coordinates for places within Mexico in Spanish.
GeoDatenZentrum http://sg.geodatenzentrum.de/web_bkg_webmap/applications/webatlasde/webatlasde.html Find coordinates for places within Germany.
Lantmäteriet http://kso.lantmateriet.se Find places within Sweden in Swedish but no coordinates available.
GeoArgentina http://ventas.ign.gob.ar/catalog/searchadv.htm Find coordinates for places within Argentina in Spanish.
BEV http://www.austrianmap.at/amap/ Find coordinates for places within Austria in German.
Wikimapia http://wikimapia.org/ Find coordinates for places via user-tagged records around the world. Useful for some obscure places in particular in India.
HCSO http://portal.ksh.hu/pls/portal/CP.hnt2.gazetteer Find places within Hungary but no coordinates available.
PSGC http://www.nscb.gov.ph/activestats/psgc/ Find places within the Philippines but no coordinates available.
Placenames Database of Ireland http://www.logainm.ie Find coordinates for places within Ireland but coordinates need converted into WGS 84 units.
Cadastre GeoMeta http://www.geometa.ch Find coordinates for places within Switzerland but coordinates need converted into WGS 84 units.
CNIG http://www.cnig.es Find coordinates for places within Spain but coordinates need converted into WGS 84 units. Click on "búsqueda avanzada (advanced search" at the top to search for a place name.
Stednavne http://www.stednavne.info Find places within Denmark in Danish but no coordinates available.
Norgeskart http://kart.statkart.no/adaptive2/default.aspx?gui=1&lang=1 Find places within Norway in Norwegian
Catalogo IGM http://www.igmi.org/ware/ Find coordinates for places within Italy in Italian
National Land Survey of Finland (NLS) http://kansalaisen.karttapaikka.fi/kartanhaku/osoitehaku.html?lang=en Find coordinates for places within Finland
Locatienet http://routenet.nl Find coordinates for places within the Netherlands. First, search in Route Planner. Then after locating the locality, go back to Route Planner, select GPS above the search, then find the coordinates for the locality.

Geographic Tools

Name URL Description
Earth Point http://www.earthpoint.us/Townships.aspx Convert from U.S. TRS (Township Range Section) designation to WGS coordinates