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From: "Mike Flannigan" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Air Photo Maps, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 8:43:09 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: Lying maps that just lie there


GNIS says there has never been a
"ruin" feature.

Here is the e-mail they sent me:
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No, ruin was never a feature class in GNIS not even at the beginning.  The
term is often a descriptor used on maps and associated with named features
in parentheses on maps, and was included in parentheses after the official
geographic name in GNIS when warranted.  However, this was abandoned in a
GNIS redesign in the late 1990s, and the term ruin appears in the
description field now.

For Lou Yost
Manager GNIS

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Mike Flannigan



On , [log in to unmask] wrote:
 >
 >
 >I didn't know that "ruin" was ever a feature
 >type in GNIS.  The 2/1995 GNIS database
 >had "cave", but no "ruin".  Anybody know
 >when "ruin" was last in the GNIS?
 >
 >The listed features types in the 2/1995
 >GNIS are:
 >airport, arch, area, arroyo, bar, basin, bay, beach, bench, bend,
 >bridge, building, canal, cape, cave, cemetery, channel, church, civil,
 >cliff, cove, 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, post
 >office, ppl, range, rapids, reserve, reservoir, ridge, rock, school,
 >sea, slope, spring, stream, summit, swamp, tower, trail, tunnel, valley,
 >well, woods.
 >
 >
 >Mike Flannigan