gazetteer
[cartography] A list of geographic place-names and their coordinates. Entries may include other information as well, such as area, population, or cultural statistics.
Gazetteer: Often used to standardise place names or to locate place names within a hierarchy. These are often stored in a Relational Database Management System.
Gazetteer
A geographical dictionary, an important reference for information about places and place-names and associated spatial location
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gazetteer A work of geographic reference that supplies place name and location information. When a place name is known, a gazetteer can provide the coordinates of the place. Most atlases contain gazetteers.
Atlas & Gazetteers, by State
Atlas & Gazetteers, Boxed Value Sets
Street Atlas USA
Topo North America ...
The use of the gazetteer gives the Web prototype several powerful features.
NLPGThe National Land and Property Gazetteer is a database of addresses across England and Wales which is created from data supplied by Local Councils, and based around the BS7666 standard.
World: Global Gazetteer -- commercial GIS database
World: GPS Waypoint Registery -- user maintained database of interesting sites around the world
World: The Great Globe Gallery -- more globe images than you can shake a stick at ...
In situations where data have been collected and assigned to postal or area codes, it is usually necessary to convert these to geographic coordinates by use of a definitive directory or gazetteer file.
If no easily-obtainable official gazetteer or names Web site exists, official documents produced by the country are consulted, or failing that, well-respected atlases are used for advice.
Names of other features within sovereign states ...
RDL - GIS AT SFU
Ready Reference: Maps/Gazetteers
Reference Sources
REMOTE SENSING RELATED WEB SITES
RICA::Homework & Research::Maps
Robert L Wolpert
Rui Reis's Bookmarks ...
For additional pointers to place name data and online gazetteers see this directory
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He relied mainly on the work of an earlier geographer, Marinos of Tyre, and on gazetteers of the Roman and ancient Persian empire, but most of his sources beyond the perimeter of the Empire were unreliable.
provides all the features of the Basic edition plus visualization (mapping) and spatial analysis. It also allows you to publish GIS services; support browser-based editing capabilities; and a suite of related features such as geocoding, gazetteer, ...
Section C - People (4.5MB)
Section D - Land Use and Agriculture (3.4MB)
Section E - Minerals and Energy (2.5MB)
Section F - Transport (1.4MB)
Section G - Industry and Trade (1.3MB)
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 See also: Information, Geographic, Feature, Map, Location
  
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