GeoNames | Agrisemantics Map of Data Standards

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The GeoNames geographical database is available for download free of charge under a creative commons attribution license. It contains over 10 million geographical names and consists of over 9 million unique features whereof 2.8 million populated places and 5.5 million alternate names. All features are categorized into one out of nine feature classes and further subcategorized into one out of 645 feature codes. The data is accessible free of charge through a number of webservices and a daily database export. GeoNames is already serving up to over 150 million web service requests per day.

Form

Core information

URL(s):

http://www.geonames.org/

Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):

Christophe Boutreux

Domain(s):

Geospatial and geopolitical domain

Type of standard:

Name authority list

Additional information

Contact email:

info@geonames.org

Publication year:

2014

License(s):

CC0 Public Domain Dedication

Technical information

Relations

Aligned / mapped to (link to vocabulary in the map):

AGROVOC Multilingual agricultural thesaurus

VEST / AgroPortal integration

Original source:

VEST Registry

Assessment

An overview of criteria used for the assessment can be found here.

Total score:

0.96

assessment tabs

Fitness / adoption

Complete:

Not clear - N/A

Authoritative:

Not clear - N/A

Largely compatible:

Not clear - N/A

Known:

Not clear - N/A

Used in software:

Not clear - N/A

Used in datasets:

Not clear - N/A

Discoverable:

Not clear - N/A

Regulatory:

Not clear - N/A

Endorsed:

Not clear - N/A

Long-term, sustainable:

Not clear - N/A

Participatory, collaborative:

Not clear - N/A

Maintained:

Not clear - N/A

Scores

Avg fitness:

1.00

Avg adoption:

1.00

Usability / openness

Available on the web:

Not clear - N/A

Versatile:

Not clear - N/A

Served by APIs:

Not clear - N/A

Manageable:

Not clear - N/A

Documented:

Not clear - N/A

Supported:

Not clear - N/A

Testable:

Not clear - N/A

Machine-readable:

Not clear - N/A

Meaningful:

Not clear - N/A

Annotated:

Not clear - N/A

Linked:

Not clear - N/A

Clearly licensed:

Not clear - N/A

Openly licensed:

Not clear - N/A

Scores

Avg usability:

1.00

Avg openness:

0.86

URI: https://vest.agrisemantics.org/node/18672

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