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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 | |
Bulgaria | Yes | Yes | https://geonames.cadastre.bg/index.php | Bulgarian and 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 Autoriserede stednavne i Danmark – Københavns Universitet (ku.dk), click on the link Download listen i Excel-format (1 MB). | danish | The Danish register contains only placenames in Denmark, not Greenland and Faroe Islands. Reference: Greenland |
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. |
Finland | Yes | Yes | File download service for GNR data (GML files): https://tiedostopalvelu.maanmittauslaitos.fi/tp/kartta?lang=en > “Geographic names (OAPIF schema)” Interface service (OGC API – Features) for GNR data: https://www.maanmittauslaitos.fi/en/maps-and-spatial-data/expert-users/kartta-ja-paikkatietojen-rajapintapalvelut/paikkatiedon <https://www.maanmittauslaitos.fi/en/maps-and-spatial-data/expert-users/kartta-ja-paikkatietojen-rajapintapalvelut/paikkatiedon> | Finnish, Swedish, North Saami, Inari Saami, and Skolt Saami | |
Greenland | Yes | Free and Open Source | https://asiaq.maps.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=c5c7d9d52a264980a24911d7d33914b5 | Greenlandic and Danish | |
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. | |
Italiy | Yes More precisely, in Italy, there are two levels of treatment of geographical names: national and regional. At the national level, the task is carried out by the Italian Geographic Military Institute (IGMI) while at the regional level the task is carried out by the regions and the autonomous provinces of Trento and Bolzano-Bozen. | No. The national toponymy database created by IGMI is for sale. At the regional and provincial scale toponyms are currently available free of charge only for some Italian territories. IGMI and Veneto Region are currently working to create regional gazetteers to be merged into the IGMI database. This project will hopefully serve as a model to be applied nationally to all Italian regions. | For the national level, it is necessary to send a purchase request to the IGMI at the following link: https://www.igmi.org/it/descrizione-prodotti/cartografia-digitale/database-toponomastica For the Autonomous Region of Valle d'Aosta - Vallée d'Aoste, the official toponymy is available at the following link: https://www.regione.vda.it/enti_locali/cartella_f.asp?pk_cartelle=442 For the Liguria Region the entire toponymic dataset is available at the following link: https://srvcarto.regione.liguria.it/geoservices/apps/viewer/pages/apps/download/index.html?id=2238 For the Autonomous Province of Trento, the Trentino Toponymy Dictionary is available at the following link: https://www.cultura.trentino.it/portal/server.pt/community/dizionario_toponomastico_trentino A toponymic dataset was created for the Autonomous Province of Bolzano - Bozen, available in shapefile and PDF formats. You can download it at the following link: For the Tuscany Region, the regional gazetteer is available at the following link: http://www502.regione.toscana.it/geoscopio/cartoteca.html | The data is accessible in the following languages: - Italian for the national level; - Italian and French for the Autonomous Region of Valle d’Aosta - Vallée d’Aoste; - Italian, English and German for the Autonomous Province of Trento; - Italian and German for the Autonomous Province of Bolzano - Bozen; - Italian for the Tuscany Region. | The sale of the toponymy database by the IGMI is currently established by administrative provisions. |
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 | |
Moldova | not yet | Yes (WMS) | Our spatial data with geographical name publish on the NSDI geoportal and thematic geoportal www.moldova-map.md | Romania | the Agency for Land Relations and Cadastre of the Republic of Moldova is pleased to inform you that Moldova is in the process of developing the Law on Geographical Names and creating an Electronic Registry of Geographical Names. This is being implemented as part of a joint project with the Norwegian mapping agency "Kartverket" and funded by the Norwegian government. |
New Zealand | Yes | Yes, all free and available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence. |
| English | |
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 | |
South Africa | Section 6(2) (b) of the South African Geographical Names Council Act, Act No 118 of 1998 requires that the South African Geographical Names council through its secretariat in the Department of Sport Arts and Culture develop and maintain a computerized or digital database of all geographical Names. The data stored in the database should be accessible to the general public freely at no extra cost and easily accessible. However, due to certain challenges, the previous database went dormant and the SAGNC is in the final stages of development launching a new system that will be up and running in due course. | The platform will be free and easily accessible on the internet as a website (SAGNS website). The website will also be linked to the Department of Sport Arts and Culture website and can be accessed through this point as well. The w web portal directly from the Geographic names database. | The link to the website will be available in due course as soon as the project is completed | The website will be in English. However, Names will be in All eleven South African languages and other common languages | Work in Progress |
Spain | Yes | Yes | Spain, through the National Geographic Institute (IGN), provides this data with the Basic Geographic Gazetteer of Spain, in two different ways. Both free. On the one hand, data can be downloaded via the download service (WFS) according to INSPIRE specifications. The data model adopted for this service is also set by INSPIRE (https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/id/document/tg/gn) so it is fully interoperable. The link to access this service is: https://www.ign.es/wfs-inspire/ngbe On the other hand, the IGN also makes available to all users the download of the Basic Geographic gazetteer of Spain as a file in Access database format or as a file in *.csv format (in this case with an own data model) through the CNIG Download Center at this link: http://centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/locale?request_locale=en (then accessing the Basic Geographic Nomenclature of Spain section). | Spanish | |
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. |