Overview
Summary	Geographic name and postal code lookup
Category	Mapping
Tags	mapping
Date Reviewed	2007-01-02
Description	From their site: The geonames.org geographical database is available for download free of charge under a creative commons attribution license. It contains over eight million geographical names and consists of 6.3 million unique features whereof 2.2 million populated places and 1.8 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.org is already serving up to over 3 million web service requests per day.
API Home Page	http://www.geonames.org/export/
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Protocol
Protocols	REST
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Data Formats	XML, JSON
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API Forum	GeoNames Forum
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