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GeoNames
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Also known as geonames.org, community geonames

thumb|Worldwide density of GeoNames entries in 2006

Official website

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Described at

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Encyclopedic overview

7 sections
Contents
  • Database and web services
  • Wiki interface
  • Semantic Web integration
  • Accuracy and improvements
  • References
  • Further reading
  • External links

thumb|Worldwide density of GeoNames entries in 2006

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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “GeoNames” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.