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Service Description: USGS developed The National Map Gazetteer as the federal and national standard (ANSI INCITS 446-2008) for geographic nomenclature based on the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). The National Map Gazetteer contains information about physical and cultural geographic features, geographic areas, and locational entities that are generally recognizable and locatable by name (have achieved some landmark status) and are of interest to any level of government or to the public for any purpose that would lead to the representation of the feature in printed or electronic maps and/or geographic information systems. This WFS dataset includes features of all types in the United States, its associated areas, and Antarctica, current and historical, but not including roads and highways. The dataset holds the federally recognized name of each feature and defines the feature location by state, county, USGS topographic map, and geographic coordinates. Other attributes include names or spellings other than the official name, feature classification, and historical and descriptive information. The dataset assigns a unique, permanent feature identifier, the Feature ID, as a standard Federal key for accessing, integrating, or reconciling feature data from multiple data sets. This dataset is a flat model, establishing no relationships between features, such as hierarchical, spatial, jurisdictional, organizational, administrative, or in any other manner. As an integral part of The National Map, the Gazetteer collects data from a broad program of partnerships with federal, state, and local government agencies and other authorized contributors. The Gazetteer provides data to all levels of government and to the public, as well as to numerous applications through a web query site, web map, feature and XML services, file download services, and customized files upon request. The National Map download client allows free downloads of public domain geographic names data by state in a pipe-delimited text format. For additional information, go to https://nationalmap.gov/gnis.html.
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Description:
Copyright Text: USGS The National Map: Geographic Names Information System. Data refreshed October, 2021.
Spatial Reference:
4326
(4326)
Single Fused Map Cache: false
Initial Extent:
XMin: -77.2915970338418
YMin: 38.95910398457649
XMax: -77.03980968734625
YMax: 38.996658707443615
Spatial Reference: 4326
(4326)
Full Extent:
XMin: -179.91666669999998
YMin: -88.49999999999994
XMax: 179.98333330000003
YMax: 76.68959131800005
Spatial Reference: 4326
(4326)
Units: esriDecimalDegrees
Supported Image Format Types: PNG32,PNG24,PNG,JPG,DIB,TIFF,EMF,PS,PDF,GIF,SVG,SVGZ,BMP
Document Info:
Title: USGS TNM Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
Author: U. S. Geological Survey - National Geospatial Program
Comments: See http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/help for assistance with The National Map viewer, services, or metadata.
Subject: USGS developed The National Map Gazetteer as the federal and national standard (ANSI INCITS 446-2008) for geographic nomenclature based on the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
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Keywords: a-16,ngda,cultural resource,geographic name,GNIS,BGN,gazetteer,federal,administrative,toponym,feature id,historical,community,hydro,landform,cemetery,place,structure,transportation,variant,United States,NGP-TNM,REST,WFS
AntialiasingMode: Fast
TextAntialiasingMode: Force
Supports Dynamic Layers: true
MaxRecordCount: 1000
MaxImageHeight: 4096
MaxImageWidth: 4096
Supported Query Formats: JSON, geoJSON
Min Scale: 1200000
Max Scale: 0
Supports Datum Transformation: true
Child Resources:
Info
Dynamic Layer
Supported Operations:
Export Map
Identify
QueryDomains
QueryLegends
Find
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