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Valery35
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Land Features Gazetteer
      02/16/06 02:41 AM

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Land Features Gazetteer
This distributed geodatabase include next network links:
Continent, Desert, General area, Hill(s), Isthmus, Mountain, Mountains, Other, Other mountains, Topographic feature, Volcano

Attributes:
NAME | CATEGORY | DESCRIPT | WITHIN | FIPS_CNTRY

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See description by Ctrl+left mouse click

Credits: GEOnet Names Server (GNS)
* The GEOnet Names Server (GNS) provides access to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA) and the U.S. Board on Geographic Names' (US BGN) database of foreign geographic feature names. The database is the official repository of foreign place-name decisions approved by the US BGN. Approximately 20,000 of the database's features are updated monthly.
* Geographic Area of Coverage: Worldwide excluding the United States and Antarctica. For names in the U.S. and Antarctica, visit the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) web site.
* The GNS contains 4.0 million features with 5.5 million names (approximate).
* The coordinate system for data served by GNS is WGS84.
* Coordinates in the GEOnet Names Server are approximate and are intended for finding purposes only.
* The online database is updated on a bi-weekly schedule.
http://earth-info.nima.mil/gns/html/

Edited by Valery35 (03/06/06 05:10 AM)

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* Land Features Gazetteer Valery35 02/16/06 02:41 AM
. * * Land Features Gazetteer. System area. Valery35   02/16/06 02:42 AM
. * * Land Features Gazetteer. Volcano. Valery35   02/16/06 03:06 AM
. * * Land Features Gazetteer. Topographic feature. Valery35   02/16/06 03:05 AM
. * * Land Features Gazetteer. Other mountains. Valery35   02/16/06 02:52 AM
. * * Land Features Gazetteer. Other. Valery35   02/16/06 02:51 AM
. * * Land Features Gazetteer. Mountains. Valery35   02/16/06 02:49 AM
. * * Land Features Gazetteer. Mountain. Valery35   02/16/06 02:49 AM
. * * Land Features Gazetteer. Isthmus. Valery35   02/16/06 02:48 AM
. * * Land Features Gazetteer. Hill(s). Valery35   02/16/06 02:47 AM
. * * Land Features Gazetteer. General area. Valery35   02/16/06 02:46 AM
. * * Land Features Gazetteer. Desert. Valery35   02/16/06 02:45 AM
. * * Land Features Gazetteer. Continent. Valery35   02/16/06 02:44 AM


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