A
gazetteer is a database used to relate text labels to
geospatial[?] or in some cases
temporal information. For instance, if one types "
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
- The Getty Thesaurus of Geographical names
This is not the main sense of "gazetteer," and clearly we will want an article about gazetteers in that main sense. Where should the above article live? "Electronic gazetteer"? "Database gazetteer"?
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