ADL Gazetteer

The ADL Gazetteer is currently unavailable due to a combination of serious hardware and software issues.  The UCSB Library is investigating what efforts will be needed to bring the service back online.  At this time, we cannot offer a estimate as to when this might happen. We sincerely apologize for this interruption in service.

To assist you in your research efforts, we have assembled URLs for obtaining geographic place-name information,  as well as for obtaining existing Gazetteer software and information:

I. Geographic place names of the United States:

To look up specific place names, use the U.S. Geological Survey's GNIS:
http://geonames.usgs.gov/

To download USGS's place-names database,
http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/download_data.ht

II. Geographic place names for other countries:

To look up specific place names- GEOnet:
http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/index.html

Some countries do have their own online gazetteers, for example, for place names of Canada, see:
http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/index_e.php

To download the GEOnet place-names database,:
http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/namefiles.htm

III. ADL Gazetteer software and research:

If you are interested in working on gazetteer research, please contact the head of the Map and Imagery Laboratory, Mary Lynette Larsgaard (mary@library.ucsb.edu).

For the Feature Type Thesaurus:
http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/gazetteer/FeatureTypes/ver070302/index.htm

For past development work:
http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/gazetteer/

For the Gazetteer Protocol:
http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/~gjanee/gazetteer/

For those with software development knowledge, both the source code and database for the Gazetteer are available for non-commercial or research use.  Please note that the Library offers no warranty and cannot provide support for this software.

For the Gazetteer Software and/or Database Data- Please read the license before use:
http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/downloads/gazdata/licensed/

Files are provided in Gzipped Tar archives. 

• gaz_client_jsp.tar.gz- This is the webclient for the gazetteer.
  
• gaz_server.tar.gz- The gazetteer server, which handles all database interactions.
  
• gazetteer-data.tar.gz- The gazetteer database (aka gazetteer data), provided as a Postgres dump.
  
• thesaurus.tar.gz- The ADL feature type thesaurus

More information is available in each software bundle.

For information on Postgres Database:
postgres: http://www.postgresql.org

postgis: http://www.postgis.org