USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
Item Information
- Title:
- USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
- Description:
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This data reflects the official names for places, features, and areas in the United States. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) created and maintains this dataset. The USGS offers a query interface to access this data, but it has limitations. This query service does not have a usable API endpoint, and limits queries to 2000 records. The USGS also provides the data in bulk, but the format is inefficient to use with GIS software. The LMEC has converted this inaccessible format to one that is more friendly for GIS, SQLite. This allows for efficient spatial indexing. The dataset's time coverage represents the present-day.
- Creator:
- United States Geological Survey (USGS)
- Date:
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March 26, 2021
- Format:
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Data sets
- Genre:
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Geospatial data
Point data
- Location:
- Boston Public Library
- Collection (local):
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GIS Data Sets
- Subjects:
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Toponyms
Names, Geographical
–November 2020
- Places:
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United States
- Permalink:
- https://ark-dc3dev.bpl.org/ark:/50959/fn107k29j
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
This work is in the public domain under a Creative Commons No Rights Reserved License (CC0).
