The Australian Gazetteer service provides authoritative information on the location, and spelling of approved place names. The Australian Gazetteer is a subset of information held by the relevant State, Territory and Commonwealth naming authorities. Additional authoritative information has also been sourced from the Australian Hydrographic Service, Australian Antarctic Division and Geoscience Australia.

Ontology for the National Composite Gazetteer (Placenames) data set, API and code base. GitHub repository for ontology: https://github.com/GeoscienceAustralia/Place-Names (needs name to be changed to placenames ontology to suit pattern) PyLode page: https://raw.githack.com/GeoscienceAustralia/Place-Names/master/placenames.html

The linked data API for National Composite Gazetteer of Australia. Uses linked data principles to provide Human readable and machine readable resources for data sharing and linking. Includes alternate views for machine readable services, and links to vocab resources, as well as a landing page map for visualisation. Link: http://linked.data.gov.au/dataset/placenames