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Revision as of 22:37, 21 March 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 |
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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 |
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Earth Point | http://www.earthpoint.us/Townships.aspx | Convert from U.S. TRS (Township Range Section) designation to WGS coordinates |