Toponymic Databases and web services

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
• EGN Reference Application

Australia:

• Australian Surveying and Land Information Group: Gazetteer of Australia

Belgium:

• Places in Belgium: Belgium Roots Project

Bulgaria:

• Antarctic Place-names Commission: Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer

Canada:

• Geographical Names Board of Canada web site
  • English: http://geonames.NRCan.gc.ca
  • French: http://toponymes.RNCan.gc.ca
• British Columbia BC Geographical Names Information System
• Northwest Territories NWT Geographic Names

Denmark:

• Ministry of Culture: Danish place-name files in pdf or mdb format
  

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)
• List of publicly used bodies of water: List endorsed by the Estonian Government on 18 July 1996 on the pages of the Estonian National Maritime Board
  

Finland:

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

Hungary:

• Concise list of town names
  

Germany:

• German names database and web service
  • http://www.bkg.bund.de/nn_159870/EN/FederalOffice/Products/Geo-Data/Geographical-Names/GN__node.html
  • http://www.bkg.bund.de/nn_159992/EN/FederalOffice/Geoinformation/GI__Distribution/GI__Distribution__node.html__nnn=true#doc159994bodyText2
    

Italy:

• Toponimi d Italia IGM 97' Sample data from the digital toponymic data set produced by L Istituto Geografico Militare  http://www.nettuno.it/fiera/igmi/toponimi.htm\\

Luxembourg:

• List of toponyms in Luxembourgish, French and German, compiled by the InstitutGrand-Ducal, Section de Linguistique, de Folklore et de Toponymie