GeoNames

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GeoNames (or GeoNames.org) is a user-editable geographical database available and accessible through various web services, under a Creative Commons attribution license. The project was founded in late 2005.^[1]

The GeoNames dataset differs from, but includes data from,^[2] the US Government's similarly named GEOnet Names Server.