Location directory: sources and coverage
Our directory helps you select a real location, distinguish places with the same name and compare nearby towns. It is not a member directory and does not claim that any place has active members.
How places are selected
We use OpenStreetMap features explicitly tagged as a city or town, then match their names and coordinates to current populated-place records in GeoNames. We exclude neighbourhood, suburb, village, abandoned and historical classifications from the source selection. For United States and Canadian extracts, country membership is checked against geoBoundaries country polygons and available OpenStreetMap country-area records. Duplicate map features that identify the same GeoNames place are combined. Records we cannot confidently match are held for review rather than assigned a guessed region.
These are community-maintained geographic classifications, not a legal register of municipal status. Names, boundaries and tagging can be incomplete or outdated. “All” in regional navigation means all matched records in this directory, not a guarantee that every legally designated town is present. You can register with your actual town even if it is not listed here.
Coverage of this release
| Country | Matched places | Held for review |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 9446 | 392 |
| United Kingdom | 1648 | 44 |
| Canada | 1429 | 193 |
Built 2026-10-01. Coordinates refer to settlement centres. Nearby distances are approximate straight-line distances and should not be used as travel-time estimates. Population figures are not used as member counts.
Sources and licence
© OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence. GeoNames data is available under CC BY 4.0; see the GeoNames data documentation. Country boundary checks use geoBoundaries gbOpen USA (public domain) and Canada (ODbL 1.0) data. Our derived geographic database is available under ODbL with GeoNames attribution preserved.
Download the derived geographic database (JSON). It contains public place data only, never member data.
Corrections
If you find an incorrect or missing place, contact [email protected] with the country, region, place name and a public map or local authority reference. Do not send a home address or another person’s private location.