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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]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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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
Phone: 612.624.5757
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