GeoNames Team
Marc Wick, Founder : [email protected]
Christophe Boutreux, developer
Ambassadors
| Argentina | Martin Sarsale , [email protected], Blog Web Semantica | |
| Australia | William (Bill) Smith, Charles Elliott | |
| Austria | Roland Oth, [email protected] | |
| Bangladesh |
Dr. Md. Shahedur Rashid Professor, Department of Geography and Environment Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka-1342. BANGLADESH email: [email protected] | |
| Belgium | Gerjan Grootenboer, [email protected] | |
| Bolivia | Carlos Medrano, [email protected], La Paz - Bolivia | |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Fuad Curcic | |
| Brazil | Edmar Moretti | |
| Bulgaria | Roman Rachkov, [email protected] | |
| Canada | Aaron Lambie, President / CEO of SpatialQ Inc, [email protected] | |
| Catalan Linguistic Area: Andorra, Northern Catalonia (France), Catalonia, Balearic Islands, Valencian Comunity (Spain) | Marc Belzunces, Barcelona (blog) | |
| Chile | Pablo Morales | |
| China | Rong Shen | |
| Colombia | Ariel Núñez, Luis Molina | |
| Czech Republic | Marek Prokop, [email protected] | |
| Cuba | Elier Delgado Alvarez, [email protected] | |
| Dominica and eastern Caribbean | Steve McCabe | |
| Ethiopia | Alemayehu Negash | |
| Estonia | Peeter Päll | |
| The Basque Country (Spain, France) | Luistxo Fernandez, Tagzania | |
| Finland | Henri Bergius, [email protected] | |
| France | Christophe Boutreux, [email protected],
Christophe works as a freelance IT consultant in Paris. | |
| Galicia, Spain | Antonio Fraga, SIGNO S.L | |
| Germany | Lukas Eipert | |
| Ghana | Emmanuel Okyere | |
| Gipuzkoa, Spain | Luistxo Fernandez, Tagzania | |
| Greece | Petros Vassiliou | |
| Greenland | Asiaq Greenland Survey, Henrik Forsberg | |
| Hungary | Lilla Lukás, Antal Guszlev Hungarian Toponymic Portal, geo.organic.hu | |
| India | Sasi Raj, An E-commerce consultant working as an editor for a leading technology company at Chennai.
and Aashish Chaudhary. | |
| Indonesia | L.T.Hardanto | |
| Ireland | Barry Hunter, [email protected] | |
| Israel | Yuval Kogman, [email protected], JAPH | |
| Italy | Giuseppe Bottasini, [email protected] Founder Flags of the World Blog | |
| Jamaica | Dottson Bando | |
| Japan | Carsten Schwesig, [email protected] | |
| Jordan | Hussein Al-Olimat | |
| Kenia | Paul Mungai | |
| Korea, South | Sangchul Ahn, [email protected] Letsee Inc. | |
| Luxembourg | Sven Clement | |
| Macedonia | Aleksandar Velkovski | |
| Malawi | Georg Kloeble, Wildlife Action Group | |
| Malaysia | Mohd Shahir Shamsir, [email protected], Bioinformatics Research Group (BIRG) Universiti Teknologi Malaysia | |
| Maldives | Ameer Dawood | |
| Mexico | Eduardo Alessio | |
| Morocco | Karim Chraibi | |
| Netherlands | Bas de Lange | |
| Nigeria | Uche Ogbuji, Partner at Zepheira, lead on the Akara project. Born in Nigeria, presently living in Superior, Colorado, Uche Ogbuji works on many open source projects regarding open data, Web architecture and semantic technology. He also writes prolifically on these topics. | |
| Norway | Erik Bolstad, [email protected] Erik Bolstad is the editor of yr.no, an online weather site from the Norwegian Broadcasting Corp. and the Norwegian Meteorological Institute. Erik is a journalist and web interaction specialist, with a keen interest in geography and languages. | |
| Nepal | Manish Modi, Janaki Technology Pvt. Ltd. | |
| New Zealand | Richard Hancock | |
| Pakistan | Imran Anwar, writer, TV personality, entrepreneur. He brought Email and the Web to Pakistan, and now GeoNames. | |
| Philippines | Mark Ibanez,Proprietor of M1 Software Solutions www.m1-software.net | |
| Poland | Filip Stopinski | |
| Portugal | Daniel Barradas | |
| Romania | Razvan Alexa | |
| Russia | Andrew Panin | |
| Slovakia | Martin Vojčík | |
| Slovenia | Simon Novak | |
| Somalia | Abdi Ahmed | |
| South Africa | Christo Du Preez and Paul Scott | |
| Spain | F. Javier López-Pellicer
([email protected]) IAAA Laboratory, Centro Politécnico Superior, University of Zaragoza (Zaragoza, Spain) | |
| Switzerland | Marc Wick, [email protected] | |
| Taiwan | Dongpo Deng | |
| Turkey | Dinçer Kavraal | |
| Ukraine | Vladislav Gorodetskiy | |
| United Kingdom | Barry Hunter, [email protected] | |
| United States | Carey Gister, Alexander Torrenegra | |
| Uruguay | Francisco Ferreiro,[email protected] | |
| Uzbekistan | Sherzod Rakhmonov | |
| Yemen | Abdulla A. Faris |
Is your country missing on the list? Would you like to contribute to GeoNames and become an Ambassador of GeoNames to your country? Please write to [email protected] Your help is welcome.
What does a GeoNames Ambassador do? A GeoNames Ambassador helps us with questions regarding the administrative division of a country. An Ambassador helps us find data sources for a country. Potential sources are the postal services, the statistical office, the national mapping agency, the army, local universities, genealogy groups, and many more.
