Codelists

geometryType.csv

You can download the geometryType.csv file in English.

Code Title Description
Point Point

For type 'Point', the 'coordinates' member is a single position.

Source
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7946#section-3.1
MultiPoint MultiPoint

For type 'MultiPoint', the 'coordinates' member is an array of positions.

Source
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7946#section-3.1
LineString LineString

For type 'LineString', the 'coordinates' member is an array of two or more positions.

Source
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7946#section-3.1
MultiLineString MultiLineString

For type 'MultiLineString', the 'coordinates' member is an array of LineString coordinate arrays.

Source
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7946#section-3.1
Polygon Polygon

For type 'Polygon', the 'coordinates' member must be an array of linear ring coordinate arrays.

Source
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7946#section-3.1
MultiPolygon MultiPolygon

For type 'MultiPolygon', the 'coordinates' member is an array of Polygon coordinate arrays.

Source
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7946#section-3.1

locationGazetteers.csv

You can download the locationGazetteers.csv file in English.

Code Title Description
NUTS EU Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics

The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) was established by Eurostat in order to provide a single uniform breakdown of territorial units for the production of regional statistics for the European Union.

Category
Sub-National
Source
http://simap.europa.eu/codes-and-nomenclatures/codes-nuts/index_en.htm
URI Pattern
http://nuts.psi.enakting.org/id/
ISO2 ISO Country Codes (3166-1 alpha-2)

ISO 2-Digit Country Codes

Category
National
Source
http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes.htm
GEONAMES GeoNames

GeoNames provides numerical identifiers for many points of interest around the world, including administrative divisions, populated centres and other locations, embedded within a structured tree of geographic relations.

Category
Universal
Source
http://www.geonames.org/
URI Pattern
http://www.geonames.org/
OSMN OpenStreetMap Node

OpenStreetMap Nodes consist of a single point in space defined by a latitude, longitude and node ID. Nodes might have tags to indicate the particular geographic feature they represent.

Category
Universal
URI Pattern
http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/
OSMR OpenStreetMap Relation

Relations are used to model logical (and usually local) or geographic relationships between objects. In practice, boundaries of geographic areas are available as Relations in OpenStreetMap.

Category
Universal
Source
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation
URI Pattern
http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/
OSMW OpenStreetMap Way

An OpenStreetMap Way is an ordered list of OpenStreetMap nodes. It can be used to describe fragments of roads or local boundaries and bounding boxes.

Category
Universal
Source
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Way
URI Pattern
http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/