GeoNames webservice and data download

GeoNames Data

Data Dump

A daily GeoNames database dump can be downloaded in the form of a large worldwide text file (allCountries.zip). Additional country files are available for convenience. You find the files on our download server. Read the readme.txt for details. A Premium Data Subscription variant is available for professional users.
Postal codes are available as a separate download.

Web Services

GeoNames if offering a wide range of sophisticated web services.

Support

Free support for GeoNames is provided by the community. The GeoNames team is available for commercial support and consulting :

Sources and Contributions

Sources : GeoNames is aggregating over hundred different data sources.
Ambassadors : GeoNames Ambassadors help in many countries.
Wiki : A wiki allows to view the data and quickly fix error and add missing places.
Donations and Sponsoring : Costs for running GeoNames are covered by donations and sponsoring.

Terms and Conditions

free : GeoNames data is free, the data is available without costs.
cc-by licence (creative commons attributions license). You should give credit to GeoNames when using data or web services with a link or another reference to GeoNames.
commercial usage is allowed
'as is' : The data is provided "as is" without warranty or any representation of accuracy, timeliness or completeness.
20'000 credits daily limit per application (identified by the parameter 'username'), the hourly limit is 1000 credits. A credit is a web service request hit for most services. An exception is thrown when the limit is exceeded.
Service Level Agreement is available for our premium web services.