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	TOBIN Culture Handbook
		A GNIS Feature Class "glacier" (with the listed synonyms "icefield", "ice patch", and "snow patch") is defined as a "body or stram of ice moving outward and downslope from an area of accumulation; an area of relatively permanent snow or ice on the top or side of a mountain or mountainous area".
		A GNIS Feature Class "bench" (with the listed synonym "level") is defined as an "area of relatively level land on the flank of an elevation such as a hill, ridge, or mountain where the slope of the land rises on one side and descends on the opposite side".
		A GNIS Feature Class "crater" (with the listed synonyms "caldera", and "lua") is defined as a "circular-shaped depression at the summit of a volcanic cone or one on the surface of the land caused by the impact of a meteorite; a manmade depression caused by an explosion".
	tobin.com /marketing_pages/documents/data_formats/tobin_culture.html (14046 words)

	Borderlands Information Center - Main
		GNIS Phase 1, a compilation of names appearing on USGS 1:24,000 topographic maps, has been completed for all 50 states.
		The GNIS team, consisting of one full-time and two half-time employees, is compiling the names directly into a GIS database or map layer.
		GNIS Phase 1 is available over the Internet at http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/gnis/.
	www.bic.state.tx.us /gnis.html (899 words)

	CGRER Available Data: USGS GNIS Data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The GNIS is a data system developed by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.
		The GNIS is composed of three data bases: the National Geographic Names Data Base, the National Topographic Map Names Data Base, and the Reference Data Base.
		GNIS contain name information for known places, features, and areas in the United States that are identified by proper names.
	www.cgrer.uiowa.edu /resources/data_sources/gnis.html (226 words)

	Yolo County Place Names of the Past and Present( S thru Z ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		According to the Peabody Museum GNIS Dataset Service, Salt Creek is located at 2 locations: (1) 383557N, 1220208W, Monticello Dam, and (2) 384255N, 1220538W, Brooks.
		According to the Peabody Museum GNIS Dataset Service, Sutter Slough is located at 2 locations: (1) Sacramento County, 383328N, 1212052W, Carmichael, and (2) Solano County, 381516N, 1213558W, Courtland.
		In 1920 Woodland was in the Woodland District, according to the 1920 Yolo County map.
	www.cagenweb.com /yolo/yolplnm4.htm (2669 words)

	Why are some manmade and administrative features not listed in GNIS? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The GNIS data compilation program is a 30-year project begun in 1976 and still basically on schedule.
		After which, analysis determined that only about 30 percent of the known names appeared on Federal sources (for manmade features it was a far smaller percentage); therefore, a second phase was begun, State by State, whereby additional names are collected from official State and local sources as well as other pertinent current and historical materials.
		We are approximately 90 percent complete and one may view the GNIS status map for the status as to which States are in progress (green), complete (red), or not begun (uncolored).
	interactive2.usgs.gov /faq/list_faq_by_category/get_answer.asp?id=777 (286 words)

	Yolo County Place Names - Past and Present (A-C) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		According to the Peabody Museum GNIS Dataset Service, the Alder Canal is located at 384136N, 1215417W, Madison.
		According to the Peabody Museum GNIS Dataset Service, Angus Canyon is identified as a valley located at 384815N, 1221200W, Guinda.
		According to the Peabody Museum GNIS Dataset Service, the South Fork of Buckeye Creek is located Yolo at 385428N, 1220101W, Wildwood School.
	www.cagenweb.com /yolo/yolplnm1.htm (3050 words)

	GNIS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The GNIS provides names data to government agencies and to the public, provides the Geographic Names data layers to The National Map, and is the source for the gazetteer (Find Place) search in The National Map viewer.
		The GNIS Feature IDs for all records will be returned to the submitting agency to facilitate ongoing synchronization of the data.
		For information concerning the GNIS services and partnerships, and/or to request an account for the data entry/edit forms, please contact the GNIS Manager (gnis_manager@usgs.gov).
	nhd.usgs.gov /gnis.html (956 words)

	GIS, CAD, and mapping daily news provided by Spatial News
		GNIS is installed at NIE's Central Support Center in Belfast and provides the engineering and planning departments with instant access to a powerful knowledge base of mapping information on its network and physical assets including substations, pylons, and cabling.
		"GNIS is in the early stages of implementation, but we are already able to see significant benefits," he confirmed.
		"GNIS is an excellent example of a utility using an Autodesk enterprise GIS solution to address business needs, including enhanced customer query response time and reduced operational costs," said Ian Norfield, Autodesk project manager.
	spatialnews.geocomm.com /dailynews/2000/jun/14/autodesk.html (713 words)

	Terrain Modeling with ArcView GIS, Part 5
		GNIS is a compilation of labeled points designed by the USGS and the U.S. Board on Geographic Names that contains name and location information for nearly two million physical and cultural features throughout the United States and its territories.
		GNIS data may be downloaded from the Internet or may be purchased on CD-ROM.
		GNIS metadata, the GNIS data description, and additional information about structure and completion status is available from the GNIS home page at the USGS Web site.Load the arizona.txt file into a text editor such as the Windows WordPad or a word processor in text mode to inspect the file.
	www.esri.com /news/arcuser/0499/webdata5.html (1942 words)

	Official Control and Certification Service (SOC)
		The GNIS brings together in its seed potatoes section all the participants in the industry: breeders, seed potato growers, collectors and both agricultural and industrial users.
		As part of this work, one of the tasks of the GNIS is to make proposals to the Ministry of Agriculture for changes in regulations to respond to new expectations of users.
		The Ministry entrusts the implementation of these regulations to the GNIS Technical Department, the Service Officiel de Contrôle (SOC) (the Official Inspection department) which is headed by a civil servant seconded from the Ministry of Agriculture.
	www.plantdepommedeterre.org /eng/soc.htm (226 words)

	GNIS to sites script? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The GNIS file, by its nature, is designed to associate each individule geographical point to multi-attributes.
		With a RDBMS engine, the users could search the particular interesting points by specifying the search criteria by county, quad, feature, or combination of them, etc. Jim Farley's DBsql-tools in GRASS4.1beta release could be used to interface the RDBMS to GRASS.
		By the way, I wrote a specific interface with Informix 4GL and C for our version of GNIS database in Informix which could directly generate either GRASS label files or site_lists file.
	grass.itc.it /pipermail/grassuser/1993-May/016578.html (228 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The TMNDB was an inventory of the USGS topographic maps used in compiling Phase I of the NGNDB, and the RDB contained annotated bibliographies of the sources used during Phase II compilation.
		Data compilation for the GNIS NGNDB database began in 1968 when geographic names data for Massachusetts were collected and digitally archived.
		In 1993, an effort to redesign GNIS using Oracle was initiated.
	igs.indiana.edu /arcims/statewide/metadata/Places_Points_USGS_IN.txt (1391 words)

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		GNIS was developed by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN) to promote the standardization of feature names.
		The second phase of data collection is complete or in progress for about 65% of the U.S., and captures names from State, locally, and privately published current and historical maps, charts, and texts.
		The files in the GNIS subdirectory are replaced as Phase II updates are applied.
	www.fws.gov /data/gisconv/gnisread.me.doc (403 words)

	USGS Mapping Information: Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), developed by the USGS in cooperation with the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN), contains information about almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features in the United States.
		The Federally recognized name of each feature described in the data base is identified, and references are made to a feature's location by State, county, and geographic coordinates.
		The GNIS status map depicts the level of completion of the National Geographic Names Data Compilation Program.
	geonames.usgs.gov /gnishome.html (378 words)

	GNIS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Each council is responsible for defining development policy, specifying GNIS scope of intervention and solving specific economic, technical or financial problems.
		At a higher level, the presidents and vice-presidents of each section regularly meet as a central committee which, as it were, corresponds to the GNIS Board of Directors.
		It co-ordinates the different sections' policies and ensures that GNIS seed policy and missions are over all coherent.
	www.gnis.fr /english/1_2_1.htm (261 words)

	Lakes MetaData (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) data were used to populate the name and code fields of the polygon attributes.
		In the first overlay process, the GNIS lake name was transferred from each GNIS point to its enclosing lake polygon.
		In the second overlay process, the record number of the point from lakes.dat was transferred to the lake polygon attribute table, making it possible to link (relate) that polygon to a record in the lakes.dat database.
	www.dot.ca.gov /hq/tsip/TSIPGSC/library/metadata/303d_baselakes_meta.htm (3496 words)

	GeoConnections - Data - Data Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The purpose of the GNIS data base development was to promote geographic feature name standardization and to serve as an official repository of domestic geographic names information.
		The GNIS is being compiled in two phases.
		Standardized reports and digital data sets of GNIS geographic name records are available for each State, territory, or outlying area file.
	cgdi.gc.ca /CGDI.cfm/fuseaction/data.details/id/958/gcs.cfm (520 words)

	GIS - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
		The USGS distributes standard-format digital extracts from GNIS that contain information about features in each State and Territory.
		Main GNIS site for downloading data and performing on-line queries of the database.
		GNIS Data User's Guide in WordPerfect 5.1 format, zipped with PKZip.
	www.fws.gov /data/gisconv/gnistool.html (652 words)

	Is there a compact disc (CD) product available for the GNIS Database? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		One may now acquire GNIS data that is valid through July 2000 as part of the LandView ® 5 product (DVD format), which also has graphic capability.
		One may download, at no cost, GNIS data from our Web site at http://geonames.usgs.gov by clicking on download GNIS data.
		The same is true if a feature is in more than one county, and on more than one map, only the county and map where the center or mouth is located will appear in the standard gazetteer data.
	interactive2.usgs.gov /faq/list_faq_by_category/get_answer.asp?id=784 (285 words)

	Using GNIS to Find Elevation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		NOTE: If I had indicated in the Feature Class field that I was looking for just a "populated place," I would have seen just one "hit" showing the one populated place in Virginia with Penderbrook in the name.
		In this case, however, I left the Feature Class field empty - and discovered that two places in the GNIS database for Virginia include the word Penderbrook.
		Go back to the GNIS and see what it reports for the elevation of the George Mason University campus in Fairfax...
	www.virginiaplaces.org /classschedule/gniselevation.html (276 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Online_Linkage: http://igs.indiana.edu/arcims/statewide/download.html Description: Abstract: Stream_features_usgs_in is a point shapefile showing the locations and attribute values of stream features extracted from the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) developed by the USGS.
		The use of GNIS information varies, and has a wide range of applications.
		Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report: US Geological Survey, GNIS metadata reports - "Accuracy of these digital data is based upon the use of source graphics which are compiled to meet National Map Accuracy Standards.
	igs.indiana.edu /arcims/statewide/metadata/STREAM_FEATURES_USGS_IN.txt (1266 words)

	GNIS Search - Catalog of Coastal Aerial Photographs - Water Resources Center Archives - University of California (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		GNIS Search - Catalog of Coastal Aerial Photographs - Water Resources Center Archives - University of California
		Use USGS' GNIS form below to locate a county of interest.
		Take note of the county and close this window to return to and search the Catalog of Coastal Aerial Photographs.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /WRCA/coastal_gnis.html (70 words)

	Cemetery Photos
		The source document for these cemeteries is the USGS GNIS database.
		Also contained on these pages are cemeteries that I find in the counties that were not listed in the GNIS query.
		The datum used is WGS 084 and the latitude and longitudes displayed are in hddd mm ss.s format.
	www.adamsonancestry.com /cemetery-photo-project (663 words)

	Linking to Remote Databases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		table is in a remote database and should be accessed via the GNIS link, as shown in Figure 1.
		The database link GNIS, specifies the net service name, linking the PROD instance to the FEATURE_NAMES table in the GNIS instance.
		When you create a database link, you have three choices with respect to how you are authenticated to the remote database.
	www.oracle.com /oramag/oracle/01-mar/o21dba.html (1900 words)

	Database Design and Automation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the process of developing methods for placing GNIS hydrographic names onto EPA's Reach File 3 (RF3-Alpha), RTI has developed a methodology for converting GNIS data into coverages and in attaching GNIS names to coverage features using a variety of automated and semi-automated techniques.
		Methods are presented for attaching GNIS names that have a single representative x,y coordinate to point, line, and polygon coverage features.
		Methods for conflating linear GNIS names (those having an ordered string of coordinates) to coverage features, specifically hydrography, will also be presented.
	gis.esri.com /library/userconf/proc96/ABSTRACT/F1_KF330Wed_366.htm (465 words)

	Geographic Names Information System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		However, a new Windows version of GNIS is available as part of the LandView® 5 product distributed by the U.S. Census Bureau.
		The GNIS consists of four separate data bases: the National Geographic Names Data Base (NGNDB), the Antarctica Geographic Names Data Base (AGNDB), the Geographic Cell Names Data Base (GCNDB - formerly the Topographic Map Names Data Base, TMNDB), and the Reference Data Base (RDB).
		The RDB is designed for use as a research and reference tool as well as being a repository of reference information for the GNIS.
	erg.usgs.gov /isb/pubs/factsheets/fs12795.html (1280 words)

	GNIS CDROM Page
		The GNIS data includes physical features such as caves, forests and springs as well as cultural features such as churches, cemetaries and small populated places.
		A synopsis of the GNIS is as follows : "The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a data system developed by the U. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the U. Board on Geographic Names.
		The National Geographic Names Data Base is the largest of the GNIS databases, containing records on almost two million geographic feature names in the United States: from populated places, schools, reservoirs, and parks, to streams, valleys, springs, and ridges."
	www.nb.net /~resteele/newsites/gnis_cd.htm (668 words)

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		Extent: Main Hawaiian Islands Projection: Universal Trans Mercator, Zone 4 (Meters) Datum: NAD 83 Description: Geographic Place Names from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
		Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) History: Downloaded by the Office of Planning from USGS in March, 2003.
		They do not necessarily represent terminology for the identification of all kinds of cultural and natural features.
	www.state.hi.us /dbedt/gis/data/geonames_n83.txt (1488 words)

	EPA Region 2 GIS Data -USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
		GNIS references each feature by State, County and geographic coordinates.
		These layers were derived from GNIS depending on the feature designation (type).
		Data layer containing names with the Populated Place features designation in GNIS.
	www.epa.gov /r02earth/gis/atlas/gnis.htm (280 words)

	TopoDepot™ Help: GNIS Data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) data consists of a large number of feature names corresponding to many of the point features on the 7.5 minute (1:24000) USGS quad maps.
		Accuracy: Map accuracy for these maps is unknown, but it appears to be reasonably good.
		For the full GNIS users guide, jump to mapping.usgs.gov/www/ti/GNIS/gnis_users_guide_toc.html.
	www.topodepot.com /Docs/doc_gnis.htm (69 words)

	USGS Databases
		The GNIS contains the official federally recognized geographic names for all known places, features, and areas in the United States that are identified by a proper name.
		Each feature is located by State, county, and geographic coordinates; and referenced to the appropriate 1:24,000-scale U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) topographic map in which it is shown.
		Those records without spatial coordinates (less than 3 percent of the total GNIS database) can still be found on the GNIS Web site.
	www.census.gov /geo/landview/lv6help/usgs.html (276 words)

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