[Gnso-newgtld-wg-wt5] US Board of Geographic Names maintains database of US domestic and overseas geographic names by country in 9 categories

[Greg Shatan]

We have not yet discussed undersea geographic terms. This opens up new
territory for us!

On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 1:11 AM Dev Anand Teelucksingh <devtee at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi, just discovered a possible resource of geographic names maintained
> by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names
> https://geonames.usgs.gov/index.html
>
> Information about geographic feature names outside the US can be
> obtained from the GEOnet Names Server (GNS) at
> http://geonames.nga.mil/gns/html/index.html which has a search tool
> http://geonames.nga.mil/namesgaz/ including a way to download country
> files http://geonames.nga.mil/gns/html/namefiles.html of geographic
> names
>
> These country files appear to be very detailed with names grouped in 9
> categories
> A = Administrative region
> P = Populated place
> V = Vegetation
> L = Locality or area
> U = Undersea
> R = Streets, highways, roads, or railroad
> T = Hypsographic
> H = Hydrographic
> S = Spot
>
> according to http://geonames.nga.mil/gns/html/gis_countryfiles.html
>
> A search of the WT5 document didn't turn up this resource so I thought
> I bring it to the group's attention
>
> Dev Anand Teelucksingh
> At-Large member, Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society
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