Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)

Trust, J. P. G. Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN).

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Link

https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/tgn/

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computer_science

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• Index
  • In geography it is gazetteers mapping place names to coordinates, and postal codes as composite classify-plus-locate indexes.

    This sourceA structured gazetteer mapping place names (and historical/vernacular variants) to coordinates and place types — an auxiliary key-to-location pointer table over place-name keys, the geography instance.

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