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Table 1 Public-domain databases of geo-referenced named locations. These databases are used to locate HAT cases if geographic coordinates are not available in the epidemiological report.

From: Towards the Atlas of human African trypanosomiasis

Gazetteer

URL

GEOnet Names Server database

http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/

Alexandria Digital Library Gazetteer

http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/gazetteer/

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic names

http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/

Google Maps World Gazetteer – Maplandia

http://www.maplandia.com/

Falling Rain Genomics

http://www.fallingrain.com/world/

Traveljournals.net

http://www.traveljournals.net/explore/

EC Joint Research Centre Digital Atlas

http://dmaweb2.jrc.it/services/dmaexplorer/