GeoNames is a geographical database available and accessible through various web services, containing over 25 million geographical names and consists of over 12 million unique features with 3 million alternate names. The GeoNames database covers all countries and contains information about populated places, administrative divisions, mountains, lakes, seas, rivers, and other geographical features.
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Returns the iso country code for the given latitude/longitude. With the parameter type=xml this service returns an xml document with iso country code and country name. The optional parameter lang can be used to specify the language the country name should be in. JSON output is produced with type=JSON.
Country information : Capital, Population, Area in square km, Bounding Box of mainland (excluding offshore islands).
Country information in CSV format.
Returns elevation in JSON format according to aster gdem.
Returns elevation in XML format according to aster gdem.
Returns a single number giving the elevation in meters according to gtopo30, ocean areas have been masked as "no data" and have been assigned a value of -9999. Sample area: ca 1km x 1km.
Returns elevation in JSON format according to gtopo30.
Returns elevation in JSON format according to srtm1.
Returns elevation in XML format according to srtm1.
Returns elevation in JSON format according to srtm3.
Returns elevation in XML format according to srtm3.
Retrieve the RDF document containing detailed information about a specific GeoNames feature (e.g., city, country, landmark) using its unique geonameId.
Returns the attribute of the geoNames feature with the given geonameId as XML document.
Returns the neighbourhood for the given latitude/longitude. Data provided by Zillow under cc-by-sa license.
Returns the neighbourhood for the given latitude/longitude in JSON format.
Returns the name of the ocean or sea for the given latitude/longitude.
Returns the closest populated place (feature class=P) for the lat/lng query as XML document. The unit of the distance element is 'km'.
Returns the closest populated place (feature class=P) for the lat/lng query in JSON format.
Returns countries for which postal code geocoding is available.
Returns a list of places for the given postal code in JSON format, sorted by postal code and placename.
