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:
Australia:
Austria:
Belgium:
Bulgaria:
Canada:
- Geographical Names Board of Canada web site
- British Columbia BC Geographical Names Information SystemSearch
- Northwest Territories NWT Geographic Names
Denmark:
Croatia:
Czech Republic:
- Czech exonyms
- Standardized Geographical Names in Czech RepublicMinistry of Culture: Danish place-name files in pdf or mdb format (nach gültiger URL nachfragen ???)
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.)List of publicly used bodies of water (nach gültiger URL nachfragen ???): List endorsed by the Estonian Government on 18 July 1996 on the pages of the National Maritime Board (nach gültiger URL nachfragen ???
Finland:
- MapSite of National Land Survey of Finland: MapSite, a public map locator with place-name and street/road address query
- Finish Exonyms
Hungary:
Germany:
- German names database and web service
Italy:
- "Toponimi d Italia IGM 97" (nach gültiger URL nachfragen ???) Sample data from the digital toponymic data set produced by L Istituto Geografico Militare http://www.nettuno.it/fiera/igmi/toponimi.htm (nach gültiger URL nachfragen ???)
Luxembourg:
- Luxembourg gazetteer of villages and towns, French and German, compiled by the InstitutGrand-Ducal (nach gültiger URL nachfragen ???), Section de Linguistique, de Folklore et de Toponymie
Netherlands:
Ireland:
Japan:
- Gazetteer of JapanList of place-names (nach gültiger URL nachfragen ???)
New Zealand:
Norway:
Poland:
- Official Norwegian place name databasenames of localities
Slovenia:
Spain:
- Place names browser in the Spatial Data Infrastructure of Spain Atlas of Slovenia, maps in scale 1:600,000, 1:300,000 and 1:50,000 (nach gültiger URL nachfragen ???)
Sweden:
Switzerland:
United Kingdom:
United States:
- United States Board on Geographic Names: Database of domestic place-names "Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)" the national repository of official standard place-names of features in the United States and its possessions
http://geonames.usgs.gov/
Other Toponymic Databases:
Databases with International Scope:
Antarctica:
Undersea Features:
- U.S. Board on Geographic Names: Database of the US BGN Advisory Committee on Undersea Features http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/index.html: Access GEOnet, then select " Undersea Features" in the list of geographic entities on the query form
- Geographical Names Board of Canada: Database of the GNBC Advisory Committee on Undersea and Maritime Feature Names
Extraterrestrial Features:
For Inquisitive Minds
The Google Web Directory: