Geographic Resources / Gazetteers

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/ksos/	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

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