QUICK
REFERENCE
WORLD GAZETTEER
Gazetteer: Identification Information
Originator: National Imagery and Mapping Agency's (NIMA)
Date: 1994
Title: World
Gazetteer
Purpose: unknown
Abstract: The GEOnet Names
Server (GNS) provides access to the National Imagery and Mapping Agency's
(NIMA) database of foreign geographic feature names. Approximately 20,000 of
the database's 3.5 million features are updated monthly with names information
approved by the U.S. Board on
Geographic Names (US BGN).
Access Constraints: none
Use Constraints: It is ultimately
the user's responsibility to assess the accuracy and completeness of a data-set
extracted from the data base and to determine if these are sufficient for the
purposes to which the data-set would be applied.
Ordering
Instructions: available online, see
online linkage below
Contact
Person: NIMA Operational Help Desk
(ESICS/L-88)
Contact Organization: National Imagery and Mapping Agency's (NIMA)
Address: 3200 South Second Street
City: St.
Louis
State
or Province: MO
Postal
Code: 63118-3399
Country: USA
Online Linkage:
http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/index.html
Entity and Attribute
Information (table heading explanations)
Shape: ArcView file type
See
readme