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The United States Board on Geographic Names (BGN) is a federal body operating under the United States Secretary of the Interior.The purpose of the board is to establish and maintain uniform usage of geographic names throughout the federal government of the United States. [1]
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.
The Board on Geographic Names database was a record of investigative work of the USGS Board on Geographic Names' Domestic Names Committee, and decisions that it had made from 1890 onwards, as well as names that were enshrined by Acts of Congress. [28] Elevation and location data followed the same rules as for the NGNDB. [29]
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. [1]
Native Americans won state backing to ban a term used to denigrate Native women from geographic place names. Fresno County says the state should butt out.
The United States Board on Geographic Names determines official federal nomenclature for the United States. Most often, actual American usage follows it, even in such points as the omission of apostrophes, as in St. Marys River. However, if colloquial usage does differ, we should prefer actual American usage to the official name.
Dozens of sites across California, U.S. now bear new names in federal order.
United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names; United States Board on Geographic Names This page was last edited on 17 March 2021, at 01:28 (UTC). Text is ...