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	Maine Geographic Information System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A coordinate system is usually defined by a map projection, a spheroid of reference, a datum, one or more standard parallels, a central meridian, and possible shifts in the x- and y-directions to locate x,y positions of point, line, and area features.
		Information found in a data dictionary typically are names of the data, information about the attributes, and information about any relational tables to the spatial datasets.
		Information is traced from a major group, to a subgroup, and to further subgroups.
	apollo.ogis.state.me.us /education/glossary.asp (8132 words)

	Geographic Names Information System
		This information is available for the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and the territories and outlying areas of the United States, as well as for Antarctica.
		The second phase is a long-term project to gather additional names information from State and local materials and from a wide variety of historical documents.
		For information on other USGS products and services, call 1-888-ASK-USGS, use the Ask.USGS fax service, which is available 24 hours a day at 703-648-4888, or visit the general interest publications Web site on mapping, geography, and related topics at erg.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/pubslists/.
	erg.usgs.gov /isb/pubs/factsheets/fs12795.html (1269 words)

	Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)-The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)contains information about ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Information about cities, towns, physical, and cultural features described in GNIS are available for all States and territories and can be obtained as digital data sets.
		Geographic names for all known places, features, and areas in the United States that are identified by a proper name.
		Geographic coordinates that locate the source or heading of linear features are also given, as is the name of the 1:24,000-scale USGS topographic map on which the feature is portrayed.
	www.scitechresources.gov /Results/show_result.php?rec=747 (468 words)

	Geographic Names Information System - GISWiki
		The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), developed by the USGS in cooperation with the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN), contains information for almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features in the United States and its territories.
		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 also contains information on geographic names in Antarctica which are approved by the BGN for use by the Federal Government.
	en.giswiki.net /wiki/GNIS (148 words)

	SCO Web: Geographic Names
		The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) was developed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, to catalogue and maintain records of place names across the country.
		The application form for Geographic Name Proposal requires the applicant to provide the recommended name of the feature, the location of the feature (Public Land Survey System format), which includes section, township and range, and the reason for the name suggestion.
		Approval at the federal level means that the name will be used on all subsequent maps, reports and other publications thereafter issued by the state or any of its political subdivisions, and the new name will be the official name of the geographic feature or place.
	www.sco.wisc.edu /maps/geonames.php (701 words)

	'Landforms' Feature Extract of Louisiana Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) Points from USGS source data, ...
		The information may be used as a reference or annotation layer in a geographical information system and for the creation of maps, charts, and other documents.
		Because these are points named on maps, and almost all USGS maps are based on the NAD27 datum, the assumption of NAD27 for the geographic coordinates in the source data is reasonable.
		The data herein, including but not limited to geographic data, tabular data, analytical data, electronic data structures or files, are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, or statutory, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties or merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.
	fisher.lib.virginia.edu /collections/gis/losco/landforms_faq.html (2343 words)

	Geography
		Observing the Earth with remote sensing satellites, USGS geographers monitor and analyze changes on the land, study connections between people and the land, and provide society with relevant science information to inform public decisions.
		Geographic Analysis and Monitoring (GAM) conducts research to understand the rates, causes, and consequences of landscape change over time and uses that understanding to model change processes for predicting future conditions.
		For more information on the Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS), a network designed to distribute information that enables timely measures to be taken to prevent food-insecure conditions in 22 countries, visit Early Warning and Monitoring Program and FEWS NET.
	geography.usgs.gov (415 words)

	GNIS
		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 Geographic Names Office is actively seeking partners among Federal, State, and local government agencies to contribute and help maintain names data for hydrographic and other features.
		New names or name changes for natural geographic features shall be submitted in accordance with the policies of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.
	nhd.usgs.gov /gnis.html (956 words)

	Metadata: Geographic Names Information System (USGS) for Minnesota in GIS Format
		The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), developed by the United States Geological Survey in cooperation with the U.S. Board of Geographic Names, provides primary information on location of all known places, features, and areas in the United States which are identified by a proper name.
		Specifically, information on this file is from the National Geographic Names Data Base, which contains names of all places, features, and areas which appear on the USGS 7.5-minute quadrangle map series.
		In the case of an areal feature, the primary data point is the one determined subjectively to be at the center of the feature, or the one describing the location of a prominent feature within an area, such as the town hall in a town.
	www.lmic.state.mn.us /chouse/metadata/gnis.html (1632 words)

	Geographer explores place names that offend - The Boston Globe
		What's a ``Moose Bosom?" Well, geographically speaking, it's a 3,048-foot double peak about six miles west, and a bit north, of Mount Katadin that used to be called ``Squaw Bosom" before ``squaw" place names -- of which Piscataquis County had some 14 -- were wiped out in the interest of eliminating offensive names.
		Take the matter of ``squaw" which, Monmonier writes, has become ``the thorniest issue in applied toponymy" -- the study of place names -- with Native Americans arguing that rather than just ``a rude term" for woman, it was ``a hate word" connoting whore or vagina.
		In addition to the unresolved matters involving ``squaw" names, Monmonier writes that ``I'll not be surprised if advocates for people with disabilities start challenging" the Cripple Creeks -- 81 listed on the GNIS, only one in New England, a Cripple Brush Creek in Vermont's Franklin County.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2006/05/30/geographer_explores_place_names_that_offend (534 words)

	ASU Libraries: Place Names on the Internet
		GEOnet World Place Names Server - GEOnet is a database of World place names developed from the country gazetteers that were published by the US Defense Mapping Agency (now the National Imagery and Mapping Agency).
		Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names - The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) provides information on place names related to art, art history and related subjects, such as history archeology, and geography.
		Information on the origins of some Canadian place names can be found at the Geographical Names Origins site.
	www.asu.edu /lib/hayden/govdocs/maps/geogname.htm (1315 words)

	The National Map (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The U.S. Board on Geographic Names Comprised of representatives of Federal agencies, appointed for 2-year terms, the Board is authorized to establish and maintain uniform geographic name usage throughout the Federal Government.
		During Phase I data compilation, a random sample of 10% of the entries in the system were visually verified against the compilation source data (large-scale USGS topographic maps) to ensure an accuracy rate of at least 95%.
		During Phase I data compilation, a random sample of 10% of the entries in the system were visually verified against the compilation source data (large-scale USGS topographic maps) to ensure logical consistency of locative references (geographic coordinates, topographic map, and county.
	www.edc.uri.edu /rigis-beta/spfdata/location/Geographic_Place_Names.xml (1909 words)

	Yale Peabody Museum: GNIS Database
		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."
		The Peabody version of the GNIS is an extract of the information present in the full GNIS database as distributed by the USGS (our extract represents "core data" that we have found most useful when trying to resolve USA locality issues with museum specimens, especially historical material).
		The name of the topographic map on which the labeled feature is found.
	research.yale.edu /peabody/COLLECTIONS/gnis (563 words)

	Geographic Names Information System for Nevada
		The Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology is currently conducting names research and compiling data for Phase II of the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
		This database, when complete, will assist in establishing uniform names usage throughout all levels of federal, state, and local government; will provide an index to names used, past and present; and will eliminate duplication of effort by individual agencies compiling their own names layers for use in Geographic Information Systems.
		Phase II consists of adding to the database certain categories of information that were skipped during the Phase I compilation and to search new and different source documents.
	www.nbmg.unr.edu /dox/nl/nl8a.htm (573 words)

	Board on Geographic Names (BGN)
		The U.S. Board on Geographic Names is a Federal body created in 1890 and established in its present form by Public Law in 1947 to maintain uniform geographic name usage throughout the Federal Government.
		In this age of geographic information systems, the Internet, and homeland defense, geographic names data are even more important and more challenging.
		For geographic feature names policies applying to the United States, or to the use of foreign geographic names, Antarctica names, and undersea feature names by the United States, see the respective items in the main menu on the left.
	geonames.usgs.gov (482 words)

	BC Geographical Names
		Geographical names are more than labels on maps and road signs.
		They can reveal patterns of settlement, exploration and migration, and mirror outside influences to our history - aspects of the heritage and promise of an area that might otherwise be overlooked or forgotten by visitors and later generations.
		Your query accesses the BC Geographical Names Information System (BCGNIS), the master database for British Columbia's place names.
	ilmbwww.gov.bc.ca /bcnames (120 words)

	EPA Geospatial Data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The GNIS2 data are intended to be used with ARC/INFO Geographical Information System (GIS) applications that require an ARC/INFO point coverage containing the geographic names for landmarks from USGS maps.
		The names were read from the GNIS2 CD-ROM on a PC into an ASCII file and then moved to a mainframe.
		Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. EPA Systems Development Center (SDC), no warranty expressed or implied is made by the EPA regarding the utility of the data on any other system, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty.
	nsdi.epa.gov /nsdi/projects/gnis2.htm (521 words)

	geographic names information system
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	information-system.techaddicted.com /geographic-names-information-system (439 words)

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		GeoDataset name: Geographic Names Information System To promote geographic feature name standardization and to serve as the Federal Government's repository of information regarding feature name spellings and applications for features in U.S. The names listed in the inventory can be published on Federal maps, charts, and in other documents.
		Data_Quality_Information: Attribute_Accuracy: Attribute_Accuracy_Report:: A random sample of 10% of the entries in the system were visually verified against the compilation source data (large-scale USGS topographic maps) to ensure an accuracy rate of at least 95%.
		Resource_Description: Geographic Names Information System Distribution_Liability: Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Geological Survey, no warranty expressed or implied is made by the USGS regarding the utility of the data on any other system, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty.
	geode.usgs.gov /ftp/esri_metadata/gplace.txt (1116 words)

	GIS - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
		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 data available from this system is not in a GIS format; information is downloaded as an ASCII file, with fixed field lengths.
		The on-line queries give you considerable information about various sites in the database, but you will likely wish to download the datafiles if you need to use the data to create GIS coverages.
	www.fws.gov /data/gisconv/gnistool.html (651 words)

	How to search Geographic Names Online in GNIS and GEOnet
		The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is the file in which decisions of the Domestic Names Committee, United States Board on Geographic Names, are recorded.
		Please note that the general principle for domestic names is to omit the generic apostrophe.
		The GEOnet Names Server (GNS) is the file in which decisions of the Foreign Names Committee, United States Board on Geographic Names, are recorded.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/cpso/geogname.html (465 words)

	Ancestry.com - USGS Geographic Names Information System
		This extensive database has, according to its website, “almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features in the United States.” Each of these features is classified into one of about 64 types including such things as airport, cemetery, church, dam, lake, populated place, post office, or valley.
		Whereas the Feature Name is the official name of a given site, the site may have other unofficial names that may be recorded as Variant Names in the GNIS details.
		This option could serve a purpose when the geographical location of the topological map was unknown and could not easily be determined.
	www.ancestry.com /learn/library/article.aspx?article=8486 (1652 words)

	Populated Places of Washington State
		C4:Identifies an alternate authoritative common name of any member of the other subclasses of Class C. The entity code of the legal name is referenced in the ``Other Name Code'' of the record, and in the entry for the legal name, the Other Name Code references the alternate.
		U3:Identifies (a) an alternate, authoritative common name of a population essentially described by a specific CDP with a different name (the Other Name Code references the CDP), or (b) a community wholly or substantially within the boundaries of a CDP with a different name (the Part of Code references the CDP).
		X3:Identifies entities whose names are incorrect or less preferred, and are not appropriate in any other (sub)class, or entities for which more specific information that would permit assignment to an appropriate (sub)class is not available; the correct or preferred name, where known, is referenced by the Other Name Code.
	www.wsdot.wa.gov /mapsdata/geodatacatalog/Maps/noscale/DOT_Cartog/pop_places.htm (1478 words)

	Rhode Island Geographic Information System Data --- RIGIS Data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		GNIS04- USGS Geographic Names Information System -The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), developed by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN), contains information about physical and cultural geographic features in the United States and associated areas, both current and historical, but not including roads and highways.
		Metadata is the data about the data, or the information surrounding and included in the many GIS datasets that we possess and distribute.
		It includes information as to the source of the data and how, when it was put into a computerized format, the accuracy of the data and an indication as to how it should be used.
	www.edc.uri.edu /rigis-spf/RIGISup04.html (2013 words)

	USGS Databases
		Data for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) database came from the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and the National Atlas of the United States®.
		The GNIS contains geographic names for all known places, features, and areas in the United States that are identified by a proper name.
		Information on the Federal Lands included in LandView® IV as well as metadata can be found on the National Atlas site.
	www.census.gov /geo/lv4help/usgs.html (279 words)

	CZIC On-line -- Geographic Feature Information
		The documents available at this Web site have been encoded with geographic information taken from the U.S. Geological Survey’s Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) databases in order to provide additional information upon which more powerful searching capabilities may be based.
		Currently, this additional information, or metadata, may be used to search for a particular geographic feature type within the documents, even if the feature type does not occur within the name of the feature.
		Additional information on the GNIS databases, as well as on-line access for searching the databases can be found on the Geographic Names Information System home page.
	www.csc.noaa.gov /CZIC/geonames.html (169 words)

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