GeoNames

Database of more than 25 million place names, founded in 2005 and published under a Creative Commons attribution licence. Each place has a stable URI that returns a web page or RDF, with links to Wikipedia, which made it the usual place identifier in linked data. [?]

Explore it ↗ geonames.org

founded by

• Marc Wick person b. 1968 [src]

[?] Unconfirmed

• description: 'The usual place identifier in linked data' is a summary, not sourced here.

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoNames
• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q830106