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GazetteerSee also World gazetteer
A gazetteer is a database used to relate text labels to geospatial or in some cases temporal information. For instance, if one types "California, USA", the database would return the location and possibly the actual footprint of the feature.
Another, more archaic use of the word gazetteer is that which refers to a writer or a journalist.
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The Global Gazetteer
Commercial gazetteer with about 2.5 million names with additional geographic and demographic data. A product designed by Knowledge Computing co. (UK) for ALLM Systems & Marketing England (UK).
http://www.knowledge.co.uk/geodata/
GNS: GEOnet Names Server
Global searchable database set up by the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA), US. Foreign place names as approved by the US Board of Geographic Names, other name variants. Approx. 3.3 million entries
http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/
GeoNative
"Put minority languages on the map!": Comprehensive lists of minority place names from all over the world from native peoples, nations without state and language minorities (in Basque and English).
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/9479/
Worldwide Directory of Cities and Towns
Longitude, latitude and altitude of more than 2,800,000 towns and cities, sorted by country and then alphabetically.
http://www.calle.com/world/index.html
Planetary System Nomenclature
Naming places outside Planet Earth, by the Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGSPN) of the International Astronomical Union
http://wwwflag.wr.usgs.gov/USGSFlag/Space/nomen/nomen.html
The Global Gazetteer
3.5 million place names in a commercial gazetteer (not to be consulted online, but to be purchased). Latitude/longitude, population, postcodes, administrative areas. Also some 40,000 ports and airports. Developed by ALLM Systems & Marketing.
http://www.allm-geodata.com/
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Compiled by the Getty Research Institue, TGN is a structured vocabulary developed primarily for the field of art history, but can be used in any in many other applications. The thesaurus contains nearly 1 million place names representing approximately 900,000 places.
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/index.html
Alexandria Digital Library Gazetteer Server
ADL Gazetteer. If you search for a placename ADL not only provides a map, but gives also a link to search in Yahoo!
http://fat-albert.alexandria.ucsb.edu:8827/gazetteer/
Place Names Servers on the Internet
A collection of links by Arizona State University.
http://www.asu.edu/lib/hayden/govdocs/maps/geogname.htm
World Gazetteer by ESRI
Enter a city, country or river name for which to search. ESRI stands for Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.
http://maps.esri.com/scripts/esrimap.dll?name=gaz_avd&cmd=start
International Alternative Country Names
A list of names for existing countries and some regions and islands that differ from the standard international and/or English nomenclatures.
http://www1.tip.nl/~t100878/altname.htm
A Political World Gazetteer
An outline of the world's political divisions, organized by continent, nation, national subdivision, and further geographic areas.
http://www.frognet.net/~jaknouse/gazindx.html
UNGEGN
United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names. Contains information and resolutions on the issue of place names.
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/about_us.htm
BC Geographical Names
Government site lists geographical naming principles and policy, how to propose a geographical name, access to the BC Geographical Names Information System (BCGNIS), links to BC-history/related sites, and to toponymy sites.
http://srmwww.gov.bc.ca/bcnames/
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