GeoNames Team
Marc Wick, Founder : marc@geonames.org
Christophe Boutreux, developer
Ambassadors
| Argentina | Martin Sarsale , martin@geonames.org, Blog Web Semantica | |
| Australia | William (Bill) Smith, Charles Elliott | |
| Austria | Roland Oth, roland@geonames.org | |
| Bangladesh |
Dr. Md. Shahedur Rashid Professor, Department of Geography and Environment Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka-1342. BANGLADESH email: m.s.rashid.ju@gmail.com | |
| Belgium | Gerjan Grootenboer, gerjan@geonames.org | |
| Bolivia | Carlos Medrano, cmedrano26@yahoo.es, La Paz - Bolivia | |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Fuad Curcic | |
| Brazil | Edmar Moretti | |
| Bulgaria | Roman Rachkov, roman@geonames.org | |
| Canada | Aaron Lambie, President / CEO of SpatialQ Inc, aaron.lambie@spatialq.com | |
| 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, marek@geonames.org | |
| Cuba | Elier Delgado Alvarez, elier@geonames.org | |
| Dominica and eastern Caribbean | Steve McCabe | |
| Ethiopia | Alemayehu Negash | |
| Estonia | Peeter Päll | |
| The Basque Country (Spain, France) | Luistxo Fernandez, Tagzania | |
| Finland | Henri Bergius, henri@geonames.org | |
| France | Christophe Boutreux, christophe@geonames.org,
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, geonames@barryhunter.co.uk | |
| Israel | Yuval Kogman, yuval@geonames.org, JAPH | |
| Italy | Giuseppe Bottasini, g.bottasini@tiscali.it Founder Flags of the World Blog | |
| Jamaica | Dottson Bando | |
| Japan | Carsten Schwesig, carsten@geonames.org | |
| Jordan | Hussein Al-Olimat | |
| Kenia | Paul Mungai | |
| Korea, South | Sangchul Ahn, sangchul@geonames.org Letsee Inc. | |
| Luxembourg | Sven Clement | |
| Macedonia | Aleksandar Velkovski | |
| Malawi | Georg Kloeble, Wildlife Action Group | |
| Malaysia | Mohd Shahir Shamsir, shahir@geonames.org, 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, erik@geonames.org 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
(fjlopez@unizar.es) IAAA Laboratory, Centro Politécnico Superior, University of Zaragoza (Zaragoza, Spain) | |
| Switzerland | Marc Wick, marc@geonames.org | |
| Taiwan | Dongpo Deng | |
| Turkey | Dinçer Kavraal | |
| Ukraine | Vladislav Gorodetskiy | |
| United Kingdom | Barry Hunter, geonames@barryhunter.co.uk | |
| United States | Carey Gister, Alexander Torrenegra | |
| Uruguay | Francisco Ferreiro,franco.ferreiro@gmail.com | |
| 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 marc@geonames.org 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.
