# Geographic Name

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- ID: ` hk-landsd-openmap-landsd-geographic-name `
- Publisher: [Lands Department](/publishers/1cae167e-12da-4272-bb19-3b9b2c0b3e92/) · [Markdown](/publishers/1cae167e-12da-4272-bb19-3b9b2c0b3e92/index.md)
- Categories: [Development, Geography and Land Information](/categories/development/) · [Markdown](/categories/development/index.md)
- Tags: Not stated
- Resources: 1
- Updated: 2025-03-11T16:37:30.163021
- Update frequency (publisher metadata): Monthly
- Harvest started: 2026-10-20T22:31:00.105Z
- Licence: Not stated
- Source: [Official metadata record](<https://data.gov.hk/en-data/api/3/action/package_show?id=hk-landsd-openmap-landsd-geographic-name>)

Harvest started is the source harvest start associated with this record, not its precise retrieval time. Updated is an upstream metadata claim.

## Description

The Place Name database is maintained by Survey and Mapping Office of LandsD\. The original source of the Database is based on “A Gazetteer of Place Names” with the first edition published in 1960, containing placename features mapped at 1:25,000\. The Database stores and maintains names of settlement \(e\.g\. area, town, village\), hydrographic features \(e\.g\. river, channel\), and topographic features \(e\.g\. relief\)\.

## Resources

These are upstream resource links from metadata. Resource contents and endpoint availability have not been verified here.

### [Place Name](<https://portal.csdi.gov.hk/geoportal/?datasetId=landsd_rcd_1648571595120_89752>)

- Resource ID: ` 80fb7aa4-a7b9-4e10-8292-87ca1a224198 `
- Format: API
- Language: en
- Updated: 2025-03-11T16:37:30.171704
- API flag (publisher metadata): Y
- Original URL: ` https://portal.csdi.gov.hk/geoportal/?datasetId=landsd_rcd_1648571595120_89752 `

The Place Name database is maintained by Survey and Mapping Office of LandsD\. The original source of the Database is based on “A Gazetteer of Place Names” with the first edition published in 1960, containing placename features mapped at 1:25,000\. The Database stores and maintains names of settlement \(e\.g\. area, town, village\), hydrographic features \(e\.g\. river, channel\), and topographic features \(e\.g\. relief\)\.

## Document availability

Parsed specifications and data dictionaries: not available for this dataset. [Document availability](/documents.md).