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Country | Does your Country provide authorized digital data on geographical names? | Is it free and/or easily-accessible? | Link | In which language is the data accessible? | further information |
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Argentina | Yes | Yes | https://www.ign.gob.ar/NuestrasActividades/Geografia/Nomenclador/Buscador | Spanish | |
Australia | Yes | Yes | https://placenames.fsdf.org.au/ | English | |
Croatia | Yes | Yes | Dataset of geographical names View and search of geographical names database | Croatian | |
Cyprus | Yes | Yes, free and easily accessible | www.geonoma.gov.cy and https://eservices.dls.moi.gov.cy/#/national/inspiregeoportalmapviewer | Greek and English | |
Czechia | Yes, IS Geonames and IS Jména světa | Search geographical names is free, files from Geonames are easily accessible. | Geonames: https://ags.cuzk.cz/geoprohlizec/ orhttps://geoportal.cuzk.cz and | Geonames: Czech (English). Jména světa: endonyms in more than 120 languages / exonyms in Czech | |
Denmark | Yes | Yes | You can see all danish placenames here (click on “Danske Stednavne” in the left menu): https://sdfekort.dk/spatialmap You can get all data here (click on “Danske Stednavne”): https://datafordeler.dk/dataoversigt/?emne=landkort%20og%20geografi | danish | The Danish register contains only placenames in Denmark, not Greenland and Faroe Islands. |
Dominican Republic | No | All other Services are free and easily accessible | It is not operating yet | spanish | We currently have a guide for the preparation of the geographical gazetteer and the design of the technological platform for its operation as an IDE service. We will apply it at the municipal level. |
Hungary | Yes | No not free | Data only in Hungarian, some in minority languages. | A digital geographical name database is available in Hungary. The version that covers the whole country is equivalent to maps at a scale of about 1:50,000 in terms of the density and accuracy of the name data. Unfortunately, it is not free. Data requests can be made via a web interface, but so far, we have always been allowed to give our data freely in framework of an international cooperation. The data of the Gazetteer of Hungary are considered as national basic data. The distribution of these is regulated by ministerial decrees. Free access was proposed on several occasions. | |
Iceland | Yes | Yes | Download: https://www.lmi.is/is/landupplysingar/gagnagrunnar/nidurhal Map viewer: https://ornefnasja.lmi.is/mapview/?application=ornefnasja <https://ornefnasja.lmi.is/mapview/?application=ornefnasja> Geoportal: https://kort.lmi.is/?lang=is Metadata: https://gatt.lmi.is/geonetwork/srv/ice/catalog.search#/metadata/AED93950-4043-4D42-B8F8-C118611F33C9 <https://gatt.lmi.is/geonetwork/srv/ice/catalog.search#/metadata/AED93950-4043-4D42-B8F8-C118611F33C9> | Icelandic. Plus, the ERM names have column names in English, but ERM only includes a portion of the data. | |
Latvia | Yes | Yes | Place Names Database of Latvia. Public Version: http://vietvardi.lgia.gov.lv/vv/to_www.sakt Open Data: https://www.lgia.gov.lv/lv/vietvardu-dati-atvertajos-datos | Latvian | |
Lithuania | Yes | Yes | GV_DRLT is as downloadable data set, view service, search service that can be integrated into other IS, and interactive e-service https://www.geoportal.lt/vietovardziai GV_DRLT is also reused for the implementation of geographical names data theme under the EU directive INSPIRE - https://www.geoportal.lt/geoportal/en/web/en/search#queryText=Annex%20I.%20Geographical%20names%20(INSPIRE | Lithuanian | |
Mexico | Yes, Mexico provides authorized digital data on geographical names through INEGI’s Registry of continental, insular and underwater relief features geographical names for statistical and geographical purposes, which is integrated with information from various official sources. | Yes, it is free and it can be consulted at INEGI’s offcial web page. CSV files with geographical names data can be downloaded. | https://www.inegi.org.mx/app/geo2/cng/ | Spanish | |
Norway | Yes, we provide authorized data, there is a placename act that impose Kartverket to have the register and what should be in it | Yes | INSPIRE:
Norwegian full service:
Norwegian simplified:
| The Inspire service is in English, the others are Norwegian | |
Poland | Yes | The data are available free of charge | A description of the data along with an indication of how to download and view it is at the link: National Register of Geographical Names - Geoportal Krajowy <https://www.geoportal.gov.pl/dane/panstwowy-rejestr-nazw-geograficznych> | Polish | |
Serbia | Yes | Yes | Serbian | ||
Slovakia | Yes | Yes | https://www.geoportal.sk/sk/zbgis/zbgis/geograficke-nazvoslovie/ | Slovak and English | |
Sweden | Yes | Yes | The web service “Map search and place-names” (Sw. Sök ortnamn) gives access to officially approved place-names data. The service is available from this web page: https://ortnamn.lantmateriet.se/ | The database is in Swedish. The data also contains place-names in the minority languages (Saami, Finnish and Meänkieli) with their officially approved orthography. | Lantmäteriet is the mapping authority of Sweden. Geodata and map services are accessible through e-services from the authority’s web page www.lantmateriet.se. |
Ukraine | Yes (pilot project) | Yes | nsdi.gov.ua(services are not provided). | Ukrainian and Romanized form | Authorized digital data on geographical names were provided through the Geoportal of the pilot project (the National Spatial Data Infrastructure Geoportal in the mode of experimental operation). In 2022, it was planned to create the National Geoportal and provide digital data on geographical names through the services of the National Geoportal. From February 24, 2022, services are not provided. |