# GeoNames

> geographical database available and accessible through various web services, operated by Unxos GmbH

**Wikidata**: [Q830106](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q830106)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoNames)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/geonames

## Summary

GeoNames was founded by Marc Wick[1][2].


## References

1. [Source](https://who.is/whois/geonames.org)
2. [Open Access Directory](https://web.archive.org/web/20191117172926/http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Data_repositories)
3. [Source](https://www.geospatialweb.com/user/wick.html)
4. XING
5. [Source](https://marketplace.sshopencloud.eu/tool-or-service/SF6SHP)
6. [Source](https://tapor.ca/tools/1371)
7. [Source](http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/readme.txt)
8. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
9. Quora
10. Semantic Scholar
11. FactGrid
12. KBpedia