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Spatial Analysis -- Naming Rivers and Places
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Subject:        Spatial Analysis -- Naming Rivers and Places
Date:   Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:36:14 -0500
From:   Ryan Mattke <[log in to unmask]>
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In case you didn't see this...a map showing how different cultural and
linguistic factors have influenced the naming of geographic features in
the US...

http://derekwatkins.wordpress.com/2011/07/25/generic-stream-terms/

And a version for the U.K.:

http://spatialanalysis.co.uk/2011/08/naming-rivers-and-places/


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Ryan Mattke
Head, John R. Borchert Map Library
University of Minnesota
S-76 Wilson Library
309 19th Ave South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

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