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	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