Gazetteer

A gazetteer is a database used to relate text labels to geospatial or in some cases temporal information. For instance, if I type "California, USA" the database would return the location and possibly the actual footprint of the feature.

For some examples see…

• The Alexandria Digital Library at UCSB

• • http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/

• • http://fat-albert.alexandria.ucsb.edu:8827/gazetteer/

• The U.S. Gazetteer

• • http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer

• World Gazetteer

• • http://www.gazetteer.de/