The Geonames website offers a number of useful geocoding services:
- Enter a name, and get back:
- A list of the first fifty geographic features in their database that include that name
- The feature coordinates
- A link to let you plot the location of that feature in Google Maps, along with fifty other nearby features
- Links to download those features in “csv” spreadsheet format (looks more like tab-delimited to me), or a png image that shows the selected feature plotted as a red point on country line graphic:
- A web-based geocoding service
- A postal-code lookup service
- A downloadable copy of the geocoding database, by individual country, or combined into a single 150 MB file for all countries
reuired knowledge about geo-coding in the database