geoname: geoname

In dnanto/neogeonames: New GeoNames Data Package and Functions in R

Description

This is a data frame consisting of a subset of the GeoNames Gazetteer all country data.

Feature class:

Usage

geoname

Format

A data frame with 445818 rows and 12 columns

geonameid

integer id of record in geonames database

name

name of geographical point (utf8) varchar(200)

asciiname

name of geographical point in plain ascii characters, varchar(200)

latitude

latitude in decimal degrees (wgs84)

longitude

longitude in decimal degrees (wgs84)

feature_code

see http://www.geonames.org/export/codes.html, varchar(10)

country_code

ISO-3166 2-letter country code, 2 characters

admin1_code

fipscode (subject to change to iso code), see exceptions below, see file admin1Codes.txt for display names of this code; varchar(20)

admin2_code

code for the second administrative division, a county in the US, see file admin2Codes.txt; varchar(80)

admin3_code

code for third level administrative division, varchar(20)

admin4_code

code for fourth level administrative division, varchar(20)

modification_date

date of last modification in yyyy-MM-dd format

Details

feature_class	definition
A	country, state, region, ...
P	city, village, ...

Feature code:

feature_class	feature_code	definition	note
A	ADM1	first-order administrative division	a primary administrative division of a country, such as a state in the United States
A	ADM1H	historical first-order administrative division	a former first-order administrative division
A	ADM2	second-order administrative division	a subdivision of a first-order administrative division
A	ADM2H	historical second-order administrative division	a former second-order administrative division
A	ADM3	third-order administrative division	a subdivision of a second-order administrative division
A	ADM3H	historical third-order administrative division	a former third-order administrative division
A	ADM4	fourth-order administrative division	a subdivision of a third-order administrative division
A	ADM4H	historical fourth-order administrative division	a former fourth-order administrative division
A	PCL	political entity
A	PCLD	dependent political entity
A	PCLF	freely associated state
A	PCLH	historical political entity	a former political entity
A	PCLI	independent political entity
A	PCLS	semi-independent political entity
A	TERR	territory
P	PPLA	seat of a first-order administrative division	seat of a first-order administrative division (PPLC takes precedence over PPLA)
P	PPLA2	seat of a second-order administrative division
P	PPLA3	seat of a third-order administrative division
P	PPLA4	seat of a fourth-order administrative division
P	PPLC	capital of a political entity

Source

http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/allCountries.zip

dnanto/neogeonames documentation built on Sept. 21, 2020, 7:42 p.m.