Seitenhistorie

This page contains links to toponymic data sets and digital gazetteers accessible on the World Wide Web. Based largely on the excellent list of links maintained by Peeter Päll at the site of the UNGEGN Working Group on Romanization Systems, the aim of this list is to target actual data sets.

Europe:

• EuroGeoNames Central (WFS) Service: GetCapabilitiesService in test mode
• EGN Tables and Attributes EGN Reference Application

Australia:

• Australian Surveying and Land Information Group: Gazetteer of Australia

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• Geographical Names Board of Canada web site
  • English: http://geonameswww.nrcan.gc.ca/index_e.phpearth-sciences/geography/place-names/about-geographical-names-board-canada/9174
  • French: http://toponymeswww.rncan.gc.ca/index_f.php/sciences-terre/geographie/noms-lieux/sujet-commission-toponymie-canada/9175
• British Columbia BC Geographical Names Information SystemSearch
• Northwest Territories NWT Geographic Names
• Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre

Estonia:

• Place-name data at the Institute of the Estonian Language: Some 60,000 names and name variants covering different types of geographical features in Estonia (populated places, administrative units, natural features, streets, etc.)
  • Place Names Database (KNAB)
  • Street names of Tallinn
  • List of country names (in Estonian)

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• National Land Survey of Finland: MapSite, a public map locator with place-name and street/road address query

Hungary:

• Concise list of town namesDetailed Gazetteer of Hungary

Germany:

• German names database and web service
  • Geographical names of Germany
  • Online shops Search for geographical names
  • Search for historical names and others

New Zealand:

• New Zealand Gazetteer of Official Geographic Names

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• Slovene Governmental Commission for the Standardisation of Geographical Names
• Interactive Atlas of Slovenia, maps in scale 1:600,000, 1:300,000 and 1:50,000Geographical Names and Address Application

Sweden:

• National Atlas of Sweden: The Gazetteer of SwedenMap search and place-names

United Kingdom:

• Ordnance Survey (OS) Great Britain: Map locator service with place-name queryOpen Names
• Ordnance Survey (OS) Open Names API
• The National Street Gazetteer (nsg)

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Databases with International Scope:

• U.S. Board on Geographic Names: GEOnet Names Server: Foreign place-names approved by the US BGN Foreign Names Committee
• Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) Gazetteer Server
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

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