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Alexandria Gazetteer

The Alexandria Digital Library Project has implemented a gazetteer component for the Library based on two gazetteers maintained by the federal government, as described in the last ADL annual report. The current ADL gazetteer has approximately 5.9 million geographic names and a hybrid version of the feature classes and types from the two sources. Most of the names are identified by point locations. Point locations are used in ADL to locate a geographic search window around the user selected place names.



Terence R. Smith
Thu Feb 20 13:50:53 PST 1997