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
- geographical location geography geoinformatics
- License
- CC-BY-4.0
- Links
- Homepage
- Contact
- Missing Contact
- Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers
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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
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- 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 this resource with 2 unique external prefixes.
| Registry Name | Registry Metaprefix | External Prefix | Curate |
|---|---|---|---|
FAIRSharing
|
fairsharing |
FAIRsharing.6dba71
|
|
re3data
|
re3data |
r3d100010245
|
Providers
A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).
The local unique identifier 3532759 is used to demonstrate the providers
available for GeoNames. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below.
A guide for curating additional providers can be found
here.
| Name | Metaprefix | URI |
|---|---|---|
| GeoNames | geonames |
https://www.geonames.org/3532759 |
| Bioregistry | bioregistry |
https://bioregistry.io/geonames:3532759 |