How To Guides

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External resources

  • United Nations Toponymy Training Manual: This guide provides a conceptual overview of geographic naming conventions.
  • The Flora of Baja California: This website is useful for discovering place names related to the Baja peninsula of Mexico and nearby islands. Includes both modern and historic names.
  • The Fuzzy Gazetteer: A gazetteer useful for querying place names that are potentially misspelled. Geographic scope is global.
  • The Imperial gazetteer: The Imperial gazetteer: a general dictionary of geography, physical, political, statistical, and descriptive, with a supplement bringing the geographical information down to the latest dates. This publication is a useful source for searching historic, global names.
  • Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online: The Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) is a compilation of geographic place names, both modern and historic. It is intended as a referencing to aid cataloging.
  • United Nations National Names Authorities and Committees: List of resources for geographic names in countried around the world.
  • United Nations World Geographical Names: A multilingual, multiscriptual dataset of names of countries, capitals and major cities.
  • U.S. Geographic Names Information System: The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is the Federal and national standard for geographic names in the United States. This website allows users to search for names, see more information about them, and download results.
  • Wikimedia Commons Atlas of the World: An organized and commented collection of geographical, political and historical maps available at Wikimedia Commons. Includes many images of historic maps.