Geographic Resources / Gazetteers
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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/namesgaz/ | 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://www4.rncan.gc.ca/search-place-names/search?lang=en | 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. |
| Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) | http://www.gsi.go.jp/ENGLISH/pape_e300284.html | Find coordinates for places within Japan in English and Japanese (Kanji & Hiragana) (PDF) |
| 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. |
| Mapa Digital de México | http://gaia.inegi.org.mx/mdm6/ | Find locations for places and features 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. |
| Český úřad zeměměřický a katastrální (CUZK) | http://nahlizenidokn.cuzk.cz/VyberKatastrMapa.aspx | Find coordinates for places within the Czech Republic in Czech |
| Instituto Geográfico Nacional del Perú (IGN) | http://www.ign.gob.pe/nomenclatorDigital/datos.php | Find coordinates for places within Peru in Spanish |
| Ministry of Infrastructure and Spatial Planning (MISP) | http://prostor3.gov.si/iokno_ang/iokno.jsp | Find coordinates for places within Slovenia but coordinates need converted into WGS 84 units. |
| Mapový klient (ZBGIS) | https://zbgis.skgeodesy.sk/tkgis/default.aspx?lang=en | Find coordinates for places within Slovakia |
| Geoportal (DGU) | http://geoportal.dgu.hr/viewer/ | Find coordinates for places within Croatia in Croatian. First, click on "Pretraga" in the left menu, then select the lower search type "Vrsta prostorne jedinice". The upper box "Vrsta prostorne jedinice" is the location type and the lower box "Ime prostorne jedinice" is the location name. |
Geographic Tools
| Name | URL | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Earth Point | http://www.earthpoint.us/TownshipsSearchByDescription.aspx | Convert from U.S. TRS (Township Range Section) designation to WGS coordinates |
| The World Coordinate Converter | http://twcc.free.fr/ | Convert most coordinate system into WGS coordinates |
| nearby.org.uk | http://www.nearby.org.uk/conversions.cgi | Convert UK and Irish map coordinate as well as other coordinate systems into WGS coordinates |
