A search for moon will include results for moons hill and moonjaree. Board on geographic names database of foreign geographic feature names. The coolest place names are those that are undiscovered. Britain gazetteer including england gazetteer, scotland gazetteer and wales gazetteer as. True if this place is a military establishment such as a fort or base. Nb name searching is done on fuzzy searching which means it isnt always an.
This is a comprehensive database of world city names with latitude and longitude for all the cities and places of each of the continents every country and region. Let your customerfacing staff find places quickly when talking to callers. Worldwide excluding the united states and antarctica. When there are multiple instances of a place in a small area this icon will appear. United kingdom gazetteer, uk place names cities database by region, county and district city database description. Csv download of cities in the us by state citygrid. The npi certification date will be defined as a 10 character date with the format of mmddyyyy and will be the last column in the data file. Once you have zoomed, panned and filtered to your desired results hit the search button to list details with the option to download in a variety of projections and formats. The database is the official repository of foreign placename decisions approved by the bgn. This file contains the digital points for the index of place names in great britain as at july 2016. For some cities, our data is generated from a polygon representing the city, for others we simply have a point.
The geonames database covers all countries and contains over eleven million place names that are available for download free of charge. Board on geographic names, a federal interagency body chartered by public law to maintain uniform feature name usage throughout the government and to promulgate standard names to the. Ora is a configuration file that the oracle database uses. Display, print, and download up to 2,000 records from a query. Board on geographic names bgn is a federal body created in 1890 and established in its present form by public law in 1947 to maintain uniform geographic name usage throughout the federal government. A new column, the npi certification date, will be added to the end of the file. All files are pipedelimited text files and were last updated january 1, 2020. Files of official geographical names for individual provinces and territories, as well as for the offshore, are available in text, shape and kml formats from the table below. Most cities, counties, and states provide databases of places. The boundaries and names shown and the designations used on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the united nations. Rest url of arcgis for inspire feature download service. Os open names provides the accurate locations of streets and postcodes in great britain. However a search for moon will also return results for goongoomoonee and killymoon.
It allows users and applications to connect to oracle databases by matching a connection name with all of the relevant details. Queensland place names search queensland government. The bylaws of the bgn have been in place since 1948 and have been revised when needed. The place names register contains only names approved by the minister. The database is based on usa census data and it contains nearly 50,000 surnames or family names, 90,000 first or given names and 50 titles with frequency index. National file all features in one file all states file individual state files in a single. Build with comprehensive, global points of interest data.
You can narrow your search by specifying the type of feature you are searching for and the province or territory where the toponym is located. Its also available in vector data format os open map local is a streetlevel digital map that clearly shows roads, road names, electric car charging points and major public buildings to view the area covered by each map tile, see our tile locator map the national dataset for this product is a big download. Query the database for official geographic feature names, their location attributes, variant names, and other data. What are some truly open, free, databases of places. Access the queensland place names database, queensland globe, spatial datasets, registers and gazetteers. That is not just an formal position, it is a practical one. Geographic names information system gnis usgs national. However, the committee has decided information on all place names in its database are to be made available, to assist researchers. The geonet names server provides access to the national geospatialintelligence agencys and the u. The geographic names in this database are provided for the guidance of and use by the federal government and for the information of the general public. The board on geographic names has many files available for download. Give your users the information they need to plan a trip to tokyo or choose a ramen restaurant in their neighborhood. Index of place names in great britain july 2016 open geography. The place names in your database should be standardised.
Alexandria digital library gazeteer server this gazetteer. Canadian geographical names cgn geobase series open. Starting december 09, 2019 the format of the data file, which is part of the zipped nppes downloadable file, will change. Oracle database 11g release 2 for microsoft windows x64. Download geographic names information system gnis data using the u. Geographic names information system gnis catalog data gov.
Installation guides and general oracle database 11g documentation are here. Since 2007, united states and canadian registrations do not work, and instead redirect to a sign up page. Actually, theyre quite finite here are some examples. Our open data products are covered by the open government licence ogl.
The records include the names of populated places and. Files of official geographical names for individual provinces and territories, as well as for the offshore, are available in text, shape and kml. With places, you can provide users data on location names, addresses. The canadian geographical names data base cgndb is the authoritative national database of canadas geographical names. The geonames geographical database covers all countries and contains over eleven million placenames that are available for download free of charge. Review the certification matrix for this product here. The site does not appear to be significantly updated since 2008, and has many broken links and display issues.
The files you can download here are for use in diva for automatic georeferencing to assign coordinates to places. Data extract files for states and territories are available for download via. If you do not like the reports your software produces, do not try to fix it by adding the desired report formatting to your database, but look for other reporting software. Place names environment, land and water queensland.
This uk gazetteer cities database is a complete compilation of united kingdom local place names, categorized in regional level, county level and district city level. There are tens of thousands of open data of places. Over 4 million unique cities and towns from every country in the world accurate. State, territories, associated areas of the united states. This project was originally part of the name field project, but was split off to enable usage tracking and to reduce the size of the name field project. Geological surveys national geospatial program developed the gnis in support of the u. Geonet world place names server geonet is a database of world place names developed from the country gazetteers that were published by the us defense mapping agency now the national imagery and mapping agency. This is a database of meanings and origins of 41,403 baby names both first names and last names of english speaking countries such as united states, united kingdom, australia and canada.
The names, variants, and associated data may not reflect the views of the united states government on the sovereignty over geographic features. Os open names is free to view, download and use for commercial, education and. The database also contains variant spellings crossreferences, which are useful for finding purposes, as well as nonroman script spellings of many of these names. It is suggested that you enter only the simple part of the name. Help writers come up with names for characters for stories. Some software programs deal with this by providing a description box wherein a historical name, an address, a hospital name, a cemetery name, or a note about.
Official place names are those that have been assigned, altered, adopted, approved, and validated under the nzgb act 2008 or through other statutes that assign official names, for example, treaty. A comprehensive dataset of place names, roads numbers and postcodes for great britain. The gnis is the official repository of domestic geographic names data. The names database is a nowdefunct social network, owned and operated by, a wholly owned subsidiary of united online. If the name youre searching for contains diacritics, please use the corresponding nondiacritic character no umlauts. The geographic names information system gnis is the federal and national standard for geographic nomenclature. Download a list of uk out code postcodes with their latitude and longitude coordinates.
The place names gazetteer contains official and unofficial place names under the jurisdiction of the new zealand geographic board nga pou taunaha o aotearoa nzgb. Its written using a specific syntax, which ill cover later in this article. Gnis data can also be downloaded via the national map viewer. There are lots of names of latin origins as well, from the. A gazetteer is a list of place names and their coordinates. Download geographical names data natural resources canada. Free place name databases geocoding research guides at. Here are some choices on and off the map, including unique city names, country names, island names, and the names of mythical lands, all of which can be used for babies. The geonet names server gns is the official repository of standard spellings of all foreign geographic names, sanctioned by the united states board on geographic names us bgn. Os open names from ordnance survey is comprehensive dataset of place.
To search only registered names, unclick the search all names button. Some place names can be used for boys, but most of the cool place names work best for baby girls. United kingdom gazetteer, uk place names cities database. Download and unzip both files to the same directory. Data in some fields downloaded march 1995 from canadian geographical names database, nrcan, ottawa. The geographic names information system gnis, developed by the united. Place names have become so widely used that popular place names make a category of baby names all on their own. A single csv file, concise field names, only one entry per city.
As the out code is the most significant part of the system, it can be used to obtain a rough area. The uk postal system uses postcodes to help with automating the sorting and delivery of mail. For instance, the city and county of san francisco provides over 100 different database of free places data. Board on geographic names as the official repository of domestic geographic names data, the official vehicle for geographic names use by all departments of the. The us cities csv download has cities broken down by state, and provides metro name, code and the state abbreviation, and is available under a creative commons attribution 3. The good news is that it can be edited with any text editor. Geographic and ethnic origins of the names in our database. Most place names can be used for either baby girls or baby boys, but are more popular for. The purpose of the cgndb is to store place names and their attributes that have been approved by the geographical names board of canada gnbc, the national coordinating body responsible for standards and policies on place names. This is made up of a 2part code, an out code and an in code. Final boundary between the republic of sudan and the republic.
Board on geographic names, a federal interagency body chartered by public law to maintain uniform feature name usage throughout the government and to promulgate standard names to the public. These files contain names recognized by the geographical names board of canada. Using the csv i was able to quickly import into mysql as well make a json representation for use in some of my projects that dont use a database backend. The geographic names information system gnis is the federal standard for geographic nomenclature.
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