Links to Online Gazetteer and Related Sites

• Alexandria Digital Library Gazetteer Server (University of California, Santa Barbara)
• U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System (U.S. domestic locations)
• U.S. NIMA GEOnet Names Server (Non-U.S. locations)
• U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Gazetteer
• Environmental Protection Agency Surf Your Watershed
• Natural Resources Canada, Geographical Names of Canada
• Canadian Geographical Names Service (CGNS)
• Geoscience Australia: Place names of Australia
• International Astronomical Union, Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature
• Gazetteer for Scotland
• Kentucky Atlas & Gazetteer
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
• Gazetteer of Eash Himalayan Plant Collecting Localities
• University of Arizona, Place Name Servers on the Internet
• Queries about locality names of R.D.CONGO and its vicinity
• Swedish Atlas Place Names site
• Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
• Global Gazetteer Version 2.1 (Worldwide Directory of Cities and Towns) ("This is a directory of 3397140 of the world's cities and towns, sorted by country and linked to a map for each town. Presentation Copyright 1998-2000 by Carl Rosenberg.") Note: Coverage does not include the United States (03/18/00)
• Heavens-Above ("Heavens-Above GmbH is a private company which was founded to further the development of the pages which were so successful when operated by the German Space Operations Center.") Interesting use of gazetteer data to specify geographic location in order to orient sky charts, satellite fly-overs, etc. (03/18/00)
• CEONet (Use of placename search to find geospatial data) (03/18/00)
• Jepson Place Name Index (Jepson Herbarium, Univ. of California, Berkeley) ("approximately 41,000 place names found on botanical collection labels") (04/28/00)
• Washington Place Names Database: http://www.tpl.lib.wa.us/v2/nwroom/WaNames.htm
• Republic of Bulgaria, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Antarctic Place-names Commission: Bulgarian Toponyms in Antarctica (Livingston Island, Alexander Island
• Geographic Names Sources, section of a list of Web Resources for the Subject Authority Cooperative Program (SACO), which was established to provide a means for libraries to submit subject headings and classification numbers to the Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/saco/resources.html#GEOG (4/11/02)
• Canadian Centre for Remote Sensing, CGDI Gazetteer Service: http://cgdi-dev.geoconnections.org/prototypes/cgdigaz/ (8/13/02)

Note: This list is not being actively maintained. If you have a website that you would like to see included here, please contact Linda Hill (see below).

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