GeoNames
Submitted by natalie.hutchinson, last updated 12-03-2010
A global geographical database that may be used to identify, tag and disambiguate all references to location. The database contains over 8 million entries, each of which possesses a geographic name (in various languages), latitude, longitude, elevation, population, administrative subdivision and postal codes and information on unique features.
Features:
• Built upon web service, enabling transparent look-up and use of content through third-party tools and sites
• Browse by geographic location, country name, size of geographic region and other categories.
• Full text search support
• Extensible, enabling users to expand existing information or contribute new content
• Support for the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS84) co-ordinate system
Projects that have used this tool:
GeoNames is used in the Embedding GeoCrossWalk project to geotag locations found in proceedings of the Stormont Assembly.
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Creator:
Marc Wick
Publisher:
GeoNames.org
Subject/tags:
| Methods relating to this tool | Category |
|---|---|
| Data mining | Data analysis |
| Documentation | Strategy and project management |
| Geo-referencing and projection | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Record linkages | Data analysis |
| Resource sharing | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Searching and querying | Data analysis |
| Text recognition | Data capture |
| Textual interaction (asynchronous) | Communication and collaboration |
| Texture design and mapping | Practice-led research |
| Use of existing digital data | Data capture |
| Visualisation | Data analysis |
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| Metadata on this arts-humanities.net record | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) of record | Natalie Hutchinson |
| Title | GeoNames |
| Record created | 2010-03-12 |
| Record updated | 2010-03-12 10:57 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3443 |
| Citation of record | Natalie Hutchinson: GeoNames. <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3443> created: 2010-03-12, last updated 2010-03-12 10:57 |
