地名資訊系統
地理名稱資訊系統(英語:Geographic Names Information System,縮寫:GNIS),是一個美國地理名稱資訊資料庫,包含美國全境以及其領地內的地理實體及文化標誌資訊的名稱與方位資訊。GNIS系統由美國地質調查局與美國地名委員會聯合開發,促進標識名稱的標準化。
相關資料
- U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, National Mapping Division, Digital Gazeteer: Users Manual, (Reston, Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey, 1994).
- Least Heat Moon, William, Blue Highways: A Journey Into America, (Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1982). ISBN 0-316-35329-9
- Jouris, David, All Over The Map, (Berkeley, California: Ten Speed Press, 1994.) ISBN 0-89815-649-1
- Report: "Countries, Dependencies, Areas of Special Sovereignty, and Their Principal Administrative Divisions," Federal Information Processing Standards, FIPS 10-4. Standard was withdrawn in September 2008, See Federal Register Notice: Vol. 73, No. 170, page 51276 (September 2, 2008)
- Report: "Principles, Policies, and Procedures: Domestic Geographic Names," U.S. Board on Geographic Names(頁面存檔備份,存於網際網路檔案館), 1997.
- U.S. Postal Service Publication 28(頁面存檔備份,存於網際網路檔案館), November 2000.
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