The GeoNames geographical database covers all countries and contains over eleven million placenames that are available for download free of charge.
geonames
Local identifiers in GeoNames should match this
regular expression:
^\d+$
Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from GeoNames should match
this regular expression:
^geonames:\d+$
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
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re3data |
r3d100010245
|
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 |