Surf these sites: Alexandria Digital Library Gazetteer Server -- ADL Gazetteer. If you search for a placename ADL not only provides a map, but gives also a link to search in Yahoo! Axion Geographic Search Engine -- Search by placenames. Provides maps of places searched. GNS: GEOnet Names Server -- Global searchable database set up by the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA), US. Foreign place names as approved by the US Board of Geographic Names, other name variants. Approx. 3.3 million entries Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature -- Protocols for naming planetary features, by the Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGSPN) of the International Astronomical Union. GeoNative -- Hizkuntza gutxiagotuak mapetan Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names -- Compiled by the Getty Research Institue, TGN is a structured vocabulary developed primarily for the field of art history, but can be used in any in many other applications. The thesaurus contains nearly 1 million place names representing approximately 900,000 places. International Council of Onomastic Sciences (ICOS) -- Home Page. Located at Leuven, Belgium: onomastics in general and toponymy in particular Place Names Servers on the Internet -- A collection of links by Arizona State University. PlaceNames.com -- Worldwide index of place names. A collection of links. The Global Gazetteer -- Commercial gazetteer with about 2.5 million names with additional geographic and demographic data. A product designed by Knowledge Computing co. (UK) for ALLM Systems & Marketing England (UK). The Global Gazetteer -- 3.5 million place names in a commercial gazetteer (not to be consulted online, but to be purchased). Latitude/longitude, population, postcodes, administrative areas. Also some 40,000 ports and airports. Developed by ALLM Systems & Marketing. UNGEGN -- United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names. Located on the pages of the Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names, contains numerous information and also UN resolutions on the issue of place names. World Gazetteer by ESRI -- Enter a city, country or river name for which to search. ESRI stands for Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. Worldwide Directory of Cities and Towns -- Global Gazetteer by Carl Rosenberg. Placenames sorted by countries, then alphabetically. XX International Congress of Onomastic Sciences -- 20-25 Sep 1999 Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain)
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