GEOnet Names Server (GNS) Services

Search the contents of GNS, and display the results onscreen, or choose to output the results in one of the following formats:

• CSV
• HTML
• KML
• Shape file
• Tab Delimited
• XML

Widen or narrow the search and output criteria based on selectable parameters such as:

• Country Name(s)
• Single or multiple feature name(s)
• First-order Administrative Division(s)
• Name Type(s)
• Modify Date
• Scale Range
• JOG Reference
• MGRS Coordinate
• Language Code
• Feature Designation(s)
• Minimum Bounding Rectangle (MBR or Box) or Radial Spatial filters

More selections produce narrower search results.

In search mode, results can be viewed in Quick or Detailed views.

GNS offers subscription to GeoNames RSS feeds. The GeoNames RSS feeds can be accessed through the GNS Search - Text Based Page. The feeds, at this time, alert to the total number of changed rows of data based on subscribed country(ies), but do not identify those changed rows. Future implementations will introduce GeoRSS.

• To subscribe to a single country RSS feed, click on the desired entry, then click the "Subscribe" button.
• To subscribe to multiple countries RSS feeds, make the multiple selections while holding down the "CTRL" key, then click the "Subscribe" button.
• To select all countries RSS feeds, check the "Select All" box, then click the "Subscribe" button.

Once you arrive at the GNS Text Based search page, follow these simple steps to generate output of look-up tables values:

• Switch from Search to Output
• Click on the desired look-up table
• Select the desired output format
• Assign a name to your output file
• Click on "Output look-up table name"***

*** look-up table name stands for any of the following available look-up (domain) tables:

• ADM1 Codes table: Describes the relationship between first-order administrative division codes and their names (an alphanumeric code assigned to a country’s first-order administrative divisions)
• Country Codes table: Describes the relationship between country codes and country names (a 2 letter code assigned to a country)
• Designation Codes table: Describes the relationship between designation codes and their short and long definitions (a 3 to 6 letter code assigned to a feature)
• Language Codes table: Describes the relationship between language codes and language names (a 3 letter code assigned to a language)
• Name Type Codes table: Describes the relationship between name type codes and their short and long definitions (a 2 or 3 letter code indicating the name type)
• Transliteration Codes table: An internally generated system of codes that describe transliteration methodologies used to convert a non-roman script name into a romanized form