The CGDI also provides a World Place Name Gazetteer, hosted by Compusult Ltd., to retrieve information about international place names.

This international gazetteer provides the same capabilities as the CGDI Place Name Lookup Service. It returns a repeatable set of the feature description, with latitude-longitude coordinates. The output may provide several features if the search criteria match several geographic places. The geometry that is returned varies from simple to complex, depending on the input request.

To implement the World Place Name Gazetteer in your application, you will need to consider the following elements:

1. The output encoding is GML 2.1.2.
   
   
2. To view a sample interface of the World Place Name Gazetteer, click World Place Name Gazetteer sample interface.
   
   
3. To learn more about the capabilities of the World Place Name Gazetteer, click World Place Name Gazetteer capabilities.
   
   
4. The base URL for the World Place Name Gazetteer is http://ogc.compusult.nf.ca/cgi-bin/OGC/gazetteers/wfs.