| On-Campus Access: |
http://www.columbiagazetteer.org/main/Home.html |
Off-Campus Access: |
http://navigator-sru.passhe.edu/login?url=http://www.columbiagazetteer.org/main/Home.html |
| Description: |
The Gazetteer of the World Online is a dynamic tool for understanding
our changing world. The Gazetteer provides users with access to
important information on more than 170,000 places and areas around the
world. This online resource contains unparalleled coverage which
extends beyond the country level to states, cities, towns, provinces,
counties, villages, hamlets, and neighborhoods. The Gazetteer also
provides rich, in-depth information about the economic, historical, and
cultural context of places. |
| Coverage |
| Dates Covered: |
Dependant on the location being viewed |
| Types of Coverage: |
Full text, encyclopedic entries |
| Source List: |
Compiled by an editorial board of 150 leading scholars from around the
world |
| Frequency of Updates: |
N/A |
| Subjects Covered: |
Demography, physical geography and political boundaries; industry, trade
and agriculture; cultural, historical and archeological points of
interest; transportation lines, longitude, latitude, and elevations;
distance to relevant places, official government place-names and changed
or variant names and spellings. |
| Types of Items: |
Major geographic regions, counties, provinces, states, districts,
capitals, cities, towns, villages, neighborhoods, and special districts;
continents, oceans, seas, gulfs, lakes, lagoons, rivers, bays, inlets,
channels, streams, islands, archipelagos, peninsulas, atolls, mountains,
mountain ranges, canyons, deserts, valleys, glaciers, and volcanoes;
national parks, reserves and monuments, historic and archaeological sites,
resorts, airports, ports, dams, nuclear plants, mines, canals, shopping
malls, theme parks, stadiums, military bases, fortified lines, and mythic
places; historical boundary changes, historical population figures. |
| Number of Items: |
170,000 places and features from around the world |
| Source |
| Vendor: |
Columbia University http://www.columbia.edu |
| Publisher: |
Columbia University http://www.columbia.edu |
| Other Information |
| Related Resources: |
GEOBASE |
| Additional Assistance/Help: |
A "help" button is located in the upper right-hand corner |
| Number of Users: |
Unlimited |
| What's New: |
"Quick Search" for place-names and full text on nearly every
page; more options for advanced search; search results are "re-sortable"
to allow users to arrange their own lists; search results are downloadable
in both Excel and GML formats; enhanced navigation of long articles by
"table of contents"; interactive homepage; "My
Gazetteer" allows users to customize their experience by saving
articles and searches. |
| Special Features: |
Keyword-search terms are always highlighted in an entry; area, capacity,
depth, elevation, length, and width are always given in both standard and
metric measurements; population numbers are given, and for all U.S.
entries comparisons between the 1990 and 2000 census; a full history is
given for each country, region, area, state, city, town, place of special
interest, etc.; a history of place-names when they have been changed;
changed or varient names and spellings of place-names; pronunciation guide
to foreign place-names. |
| Other: |
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