RE: city country municipality etc...

ISA Programme Location Core Vocabulary is designed to support addressing across Europe
https://www.w3.org/ns/locn


Abstract

The ISA Programme Location Core Vocabulary provides a minimum set of classes and properties for describing any place in terms of its name, address or geometry. The vocabulary is specifically designed to aid the publication of data that is interoperable with EU INSPIRE Directive. It is closely integrated with the Business and Person Core Vocabularies of the EU ISA Programme, now available in W3C space as, respectively, the Registered Organization vocabulary and ISA Person Core Vocabulary.

In particular see (and compare)

locn:addressArea
                The name or names of a geographic area or locality that groups a number of addressable objects for addressing purposes, without being an administrative unit. This would typically be part of a city, a neighbourhood or village.

locn:postName
The key postal division of the address, usually the city. (INSPIRE's definition is "One or more names created and maintained for postal purposes to identify a subdivision of addresses and postal delivery points.").

locn:adminUnitL2
                The region of the address, usually a county, state or other such area that typically encompasses several localities.

locn:adminUnitL1
The uppermost administrative unit for the address, almost always a country.

Simon

From: Bram Biesbrouck [mailto:bram.biesbrouck@reinvention.be]
Sent: Wednesday, 22 November, 2017 22:13
To: Bryan Warren <bryanwarrenalvarez@gmail.com>
Cc: Linking Open Data <public-lod@w3.org>
Subject: Re: city country municipality etc...

On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 11:54 AM, Bryan Warren <bryanwarrenalvarez@gmail.com<mailto:bryanwarrenalvarez@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi all, could anyone point me to a vocabulary for geo admin divisions in countries? specifically European countries. for instance, country X and then how the territory is divided. in the US it would be states, capital city of state, then cities in the state, towns, etc. As Europe is not one single country... I am sure there must be on for UK, France, Germany, etc. Could someone point me to such vocabulary?
thanks.

Hi Bryan,

We use Geonames for this: http://www.geonames.org/

http://linkedgeodata.org is an alternative

Hope it helps.

best,

b.