- GNIS is a freely downloadable gazetteer of places in the USA.
- Includes lat, long, county name, and the following features:
airport, arch, area, arroyo, bar, basin, bay, beach, bench, bend,
bridge, building, canal, cape, cemetery, channel, church, civil,
cliff, crater, crossing, dam, falls, flat, forest, gap, geyser,
glacier, gut, harbor, hospital, island, isthmus, lake, lava, levee,
locale, military, mine, oilfield, other, park, pillar, plain, range,
rapids, reserve, reservoir, ridge, school, sea, slope, spring,
stream, summit, swamp, tower, trail, tunnel, valley, well, woods
- One can very easily make a REST-ful web service out of this!
- For places outside the US, try the GEOnet Names Server at http://earth-info.nima.mil/gns/html/
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