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Vokabular: GeoNames

geographical database available and accessible through various web services, operated by Unxos GmbH

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Basic information

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(P34)?Naming:	GeoNames
(P1266)?Abbreviation:	—
(P724)?Digest:	The GeoNames geographical database is available for download free of charge under a creative commons attribution license. It contains over 10 million geographical names and consists of over 9 million unique features whereof 2.8 million populated places and 5.5 million alternate names. All features are categorized into one out of nine feature classes and further subcategorized into one out of 645 feature codes. (...) The data is accessible free of charge through a number of webservices and a daily database export. GeoNames is already serving up to over 150 million web service requests per day.GeoNames is integrating geographical data such as names of places in various languages, elevation, population and others from various sources. All lat/long coordinates are in WGS84 (World Geodetic System 1984). Users may manually edit, correct and add new names using a user friendly wiki interface. GeoNames has Ambassadors in many countries who assist with their help and expertise.
(P887)?URL:	http://www.geonames.org/
(P121)?Genre classification:	Classification/Taxonomy, Thesaurus
(P15)?Medientyp:	Online resource
(P608)?Field of knowledge:	Geography, social geography, topography
(P936)?Object types:	Locality, Mountain, River, Territorial entity, Island, Lake, Building, Sea, Landschaft, administrative territorial entity, administrative region, territory, Dwelling place
(P984)?Object type properties:	Affiliation (of locations) to larger units, Geographic coordinates, Name, Name variant, Population, Settlement type, Time zone, height above mean sea level

Number of integrated items

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(P613)?Number of integrated items:	11.800.000 Standard designation(s)

Contact

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(P845)?Creator:	Unxos GmbH
(P518)?Technically realized by:	Unxos GmbH
(P206)?Publisher:	Unxos GmbH
(P153)?Postal address:	Schaffhauserstrasse 129 | Zürich 8057 | Switzerland
(P722)?Email address:	mailto:info@geonames.org

Methodology

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(P280)?Variant:	Data curation, Identification and matching, Standardization, Translation
(P575)?Design features:	Simple list of terms without definitions
(P902)?Methodology:	Based on current technical terms (Applies (overall)), The technical terms have georeferencing (Applies (overall))
(P15)?Media type:	Online resource
(P1000)?Organisational structure:	Anyone can make changes
(P999)?Sustainability:	The project is long-term, permanently supported by an organization
(P942)?Number of hierarchy levels:	2
(P900)?Completeness:	Open for growth, completeness cannot be achieved

Version

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(P18)?Language:	Arabic, Bulgarian, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
(P1152)?Date of first publication:	2005
(P222)?Date of publication:	2025
(P939)?Versioning:	No versioning

Cross concordances

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(P898)?External matching:	—
(P573)?Target group:	Archive, Citizen Science, Library, Museum, Research project, Researcher

Documentation

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(P382)?Specifications:	documentation
(P978)?External tutorial:	Exists, has been produced
(P180)?License:	CC BY-SA 3.0

Provision of data

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(P940)?Technology:	RDF database
(P125)?Status of possesio:	Complete download possible, Search results partially visible in online interface
(P15)?Media type:	Online resource
(P937)?Referencing method:	PID | Persistent identifier
(P903)?Data format:	CSV, JSON, RDF | Resource Description Framework, XML
(P923)?API endpoint URL:	https://fornpunkt.se/apis/reconciliation/geonames
(P941)?SPARQL endpoint URL:	—
(P995)?Services offered:	documentation
(P950)?Cite as:	Unxos GmbH, GeoNames, https://www.geonames.org.

Dataset editing

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(P1302)?Dataset editing:	Anne Purschwitz