GeoNames
Geographical database available and accessible through various web services / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For similar geographical items, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Geography, Wikipedia:WikiProject Geology, and Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features).
Not to be confused with GEOnet Names Server.
GeoNames (or GeoNames.org) is a user-editable geographical database available and accessible through various web services, under a Creative Commons attribution license. The project was founded in late 2005.[1]
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The GeoNames dataset differs from, but includes data from,[2] the US Government's similarly named GEOnet Names Server.