Registry GeoNames
The GeoNames geographical database covers all countries and contains over eleven million placenames that are available for download free of charge.
- Prefix
geonames- Alternative Prefixes
- Geonamaes Geomames
- Keywords
- geography geoinformatics
- Links
- Homepage
- Contact
- Missing Contact
- Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers
-
Local identifiers in GeoNames should match this regular expression:
^\d+$ - Example Local Unique Identifier
- 3532759 Resolve
- Pattern for CURIES
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Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from GeoNames should match this regular expression:
^geonames:\d+$ - Example CURIE
- geonames:3532759
- Contributors
-
- submitter Charles Tapley Hoyt 0000-0003-4423-4370 cthoyt
Metaregistry GeoNames
The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are
2 mappings to external registries for geonames with
2 unique external prefixes.
| Registry Name | Registry Metaprefix | External Prefix | Curate |
|---|---|---|---|
FAIRSharing
|
fairsharing |
FAIRsharing.6dba71
|
|
re3data
|
re3data |
r3d100010245
|
Providers
Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE
geonames:3532759
is used to demonstrate the provides available for
geonames. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic
logic beyond string formatting.
| Name | Metaprefix | URI |
|---|---|---|
| GeoNames | geonames |
https://www.geonames.org/3532759 |
| Bioregistry | bioregistry |
https://bioregistry.io/geonames:3532759 |