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The United States Geological Survey (USGS) maintains the Geographic Names Information System for millions of natural geographic places, populated places, and census designated areas in the United States, the U.S territories, and Antarctica. The accuracy of this geographic data is generally excellent, and should be added to Wikipedia articles ...
The logo of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and location information about more than two million physical and cultural features throughout the United States and its territories; as well as the associated states of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau; and Antarctica.
The GEOnet Names Server (GNS), sometimes also referred to in official documentation as Geographic Names Data [1] or geonames [2] in domain and email addresses, is a service that provides access to the United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA) and the US Board on Geographic Names's (BGN) database of geographic feature names and locations for locations outside the US.
United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. January 19, 1981. With unnamed parameters, access date and entry date {{cite gnis |269051 |Mount Whitney |December 20, 2020 |January 19,1981}} "Mount Whitney". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
This template generates an external link to a Feature Detail Report from the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), published by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The link is displayed as 'U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Name', where Name is either the Wikipedia article name ({{PAGENAME}}) or an ...
This is a list of GIS data sources (including some geoportals) that provide information sets that can be used in geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial databases for purposes of geospatial analysis and cartographic mapping. This list categorizes the sources of interest.
GeoNames (or GeoNames.org) is a user-editable geographical database available and accessible through various web services, under a Creative Commons attribution license. The project was founded in late 2005. [1] The GeoNames dataset differs from, but includes data from, [2] the US Government's similarly named GEOnet Names Server.
Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. If used in the article Aagaard Glacier, where Wikidata item Aagaard Glacier (Q3108261) has a value for GNIS Antarctica ID (P804): This article incorporates public domain material from "Aagaard Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.