A gazetteer package for Recogito 2, using a subset of data from GeoNames. The package is based on the material available through the GeoNames Download Server and uses the following source files:
countryInfo.txt- countries (without geometry)admin1CodesASCII.txt- level 1 admin divisions (without geometry)cities1000.txt- cities with a population > 1000 (with point coordinates)alternateNames.txt- alternate names with language codes (note: this file is not included in this repository due to filesize restrictions; the script will download it from GeoNames automatically)shapes_simplified_low.txt- simplified country boundary shapes
The following data sources are used in addition to GeoNames:
ne_admin1_states_provinces_simplified.geojsoncontains simplified geometries for admin level 1 regions, derived from Natural Earth (thanks to @kgeographer for pointing me there!)- Based on
wikidata_geonames.csv, the gazetteer package includes concordances between GeoNames and Wikidata for 87,555 records
| Version | Date | # of Records | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.1 | 2017-04-04 | 152,249 | Initial release, without Admin 1 boundaries | geonames-20170404.jsonl.gz |
- GeoNames dump files are licensed CC-BY 3.0
- Natural Earth data is in the public domain
- Concordances between GeoNames and Wikidata were extracted from Wikidata by Michael Stoner as part of the PastPlace Global Historical Gazetteer project
- Additional concordances were compiled by Florian Kräutli
- World continent borders are from the UCLA geoportal