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USGS TNM Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)

<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><P><SPAN>USGS developed The National Map Gazetteer as the federal and national standard (ANSI INCITS 446-2008) for geographic nomenclature based on the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). The National Map Gazetteer contains information about physical and cultural geographic features, geographic areas, and locational entities that are generally recognizable and locatable by name (have achieved some landmark status) and are of interest to any level of government or to the public for any purpose that would lead to the representation of the feature in printed or electronic products and/or geographic information systems. The dataset includes features of all types in the United States, its associated areas, and Antarctica, current and historical, but not including roads and highways. The dataset holds the federally recognized name of each feature and defines the feature location by state, county, USGS topographic map, and geographic coordinates. Other attributes include names or spellings other than the official name, feature classification, and historical and descriptive information. The dataset assigns a unique, permanent feature identifier, the Feature ID, as a standard Federal key for accessing, integrating, or reconciling feature data from multiple datasets. This dataset is a flat model, establishing no relationships between features, such as hierarchical, spatial, jurisdictional, organizational, administrative, or in any other manner. As an integral part of The National Map, the Gazetteer collects data from a broad program of partnerships with federal, state, and local government agencies and other authorized contributors. The Gazetteer provides data to all levels of government, to the public, and to numerous applications through a web query site, web map and feature services, file download services, and customized files upon request. The National Map viewer allows free downloads of public domain geographic names data by state in a pipe-delimited text format. For additional information, go to http://nationalmap.gov/gnis.html.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>

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Date ( Revision )
2018-03-31T20:21:41Z
Date ( Publication )
2016-11-15T19:39:54Z
Point of contact
  U. S. Geological Survey - National Geospatial Program -
Keywords ( Theme )
  • a-16
  • ngda
  • cultural resource
  • geographic name
  • GNIS
  • board on geographic names
  • BGN
  • gazetteer
  • federal
  • administrative
  • toponym
  • feature id
  • historical
  • community
  • hydro
  • landform
  • cemetery
  • place
  • structure
  • transportation
  • variant
  • United States
  • NGP-TNM
  • REST
  • WMS
  • WFS
Service Type
OGC:ESRI_MapServer
Service Version
10.2
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Use limitation
USGS The National Map: Geographic Names Information System

Contains Operations

Operation Name
ASDD nodes zserver
Connect Point
ASDD Z3950 zserver ( z3950 )

ASDD Z3950 zserver

Operates On
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OnLine resource
http://services.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/geonames/MapServer?f=pjson
OnLine resource
Service in Spatineo Directory ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Service in Spatineo Directory

File identifier
72610688-ce95-41f9-8334-48448be4efee XML
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Service
Date stamp
2021-02-28T16:30:56Z
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
  Spatineo Inc.
Kellosilta 2 D , Helsinki , FI-00520 , Finland
+358 20 703 2210
 
 

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Keywords

BGN GNIS NGP-TNM REST United States WFS WMS a-16 administrative board on geographic names cemetery community cultural resource feature id federal gazetteer geographic name historical hydro landform ngda place structure toponym transportation variant

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