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Subject: Re: Print Versus Online Gazetteer Preferences
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:21:51 -0400
From: John A Stevenson <[log in to unmask]>
Organization: University of Delaware
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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Doug,
Users may prefer GNIS and GEOnet to printed "dumps" of names and
coordinates. Gazetteers which offer superseded place names or more
insights help answer questions which the printed coordinate don't. For
example, UD's library uses a printed 1966 gazetteer in Reference even
though the USGS may consider it superseded. The scanned version of this
gazetteer reveals far more than place names and coordinates:
http://genealogyud.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/usgs.pdf The entry for
"Blue Ball" in the printed gazetteer is a lot more useful an interesting
that the entry in GNIS:
Blue Ball
<http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=154:3:1611718497490437::NO:3:P3_FID,P3_TITLE:216043%2CBlue%20Ball>
216043 Populated Place New Castle DE 394638N 0753241W 292
Wilmington North - 02-AUG-1979
John A. Stevenson
Associate Librarian
Coordinator, Government Documents and Maps Processing Unit
University of Delaware Library
181 S. College Ave.
Newark, DE 19717-5267
302 831-8671
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On 6/21/2011 10:49 AM, Angie Cope, American Geographical Society
Library, UW Milwaukee wrote:
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> Subject: Print Versus Online Gazetteer Preferences (UNCLASSIFIED)
> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:34:59 +0000
> From: Caldwell, Douglas R ERDC-TEC-VA <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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> ** Print Versus Online Gazetteer Preferences **
>
> From Michael Fry
>> When I arrived last year I learned that several members of the
>> cartographic staff, particularly those who do map research
>> and editing--and all of whom are well acquainted with
>> GNIS and GEOnet--were sorry to have lost access to the
>> print editions.
>
> Hi! I was very interested in Michael's comment and curious if the group
> might provide some additional insight. Online gazetteers should provide a
> more flexible, customized, and current experience for users, but these
> remarks indicate that the printed gazetteers are missed.
>
> Other than the timeless feel of a printed publication, what does the
> print
> version offer that is more difficult or missing from the online
> experience?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Doug Caldwell
> US Army Engineer Research & Development Center
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