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|INEGI
 
|INEGI
 
|[http://mapserver.inegi.gob.mx/mgn2k/ http://mapserver.inegi.gob.mx/mgn2k/]
 
|[http://mapserver.inegi.gob.mx/mgn2k/ http://mapserver.inegi.gob.mx/mgn2k/]
|Find coordinates for places within Mexico.
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|Find coordinates for places within Mexico in Spanish.
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|GeoDatenZentrum
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|[http://www.geodatenzentrum.de/geodaten/ http://www.geodatenzentrum.de/geodaten/]
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|Find coordinates for places within Germany.
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|Lantmäteriet
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|[http://kso.lantmateriet.se/ksos/ http://kso.lantmateriet.se/ksos/]
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|Find places within Sweden in Swedish but no coordinates available.
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|GeoArgentina
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|[http://ventas.ign.gob.ar/catalog/searchadv.htm http://ventas.ign.gob.ar/catalog/searchadv.htm]
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|Find coordinates for places within Argentina in Spanish.
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|BEV
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|[http://www.austrianmap.at/amap/ http://www.austrianmap.at/amap/]
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|Find coordinates for places within Austria in German.
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|Wikimapia
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|[http://wikimapia.org/ http://wikimapia.org/]
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|Find coordinates for places via user-tagged records around the world. Useful for some obscure places in particular in India.
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|HCSO
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|[http://portal.ksh.hu/pls/portal/CP.hnt2.gazetteer http://portal.ksh.hu/pls/portal/CP.hnt2.gazetteer]
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|Find places within Hungary but no coordinates available.
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|PSGC
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|[http://www.nscb.gov.ph/activestats/psgc/ http://www.nscb.gov.ph/activestats/psgc/]
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|Find places within the Philippines but no coordinates available.
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|PNDBI
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|[http://www.logainm.ie http://www.logainm.ie]
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|Find coordinates for places within Ireland but coordinates need converted into WGS 84 units.
 
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Revision as of 16:05, 12 November 2010

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 or geopolitical units.


Resources

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://gnss.nrcan.gc.ca/gnss-srt/searchName.jsp 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/index.do 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://mapserver.inegi.gob.mx/mgn2k/ Find coordinates for places within Mexico in Spanish.
GeoDatenZentrum http://www.geodatenzentrum.de/geodaten/ 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.
PNDBI http://www.logainm.ie Find coordinates for places within Ireland but coordinates need converted into WGS 84 units.