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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazetteer Gazetteer] is a geographical dictionary or directory containing information about geographical regions. The information can include social statistics, number of habitants, physical features of a country, information about the habitants etc. | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazetteer Gazetteer] is a geographical dictionary or directory containing information about geographical regions. The information can include social statistics, number of habitants, physical features of a country, information about the habitants etc. | ||
== Crowd-sourcing == | |||
There exists crowd-sourced [[gazetteer]] where the information also comes from users directly. | |||
GeoNames which contains over 10 million geographical names and allows user to manually edit, correct and add new names [http://www.geonames.org/about.html]. | |||
[http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ Nominatim] from the OpenStreetMap project is also a crowd-sourced [[gazetteer]] which labels itself as "community driven" [http://www.openstreetmap.org/about]. | |||
Latest revision as of 09:54, 22 September 2017
Introduction
Gazetteer is a geographical dictionary or directory containing information about geographical regions. The information can include social statistics, number of habitants, physical features of a country, information about the habitants etc.
Crowd-sourcing
There exists crowd-sourced gazetteer where the information also comes from users directly.
GeoNames which contains over 10 million geographical names and allows user to manually edit, correct and add new names [1].
Nominatim from the OpenStreetMap project is also a crowd-sourced gazetteer which labels itself as "community driven" [2].