Gazetteer
Ontology: GAZ
- IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/gaz.owl
- OBO Foundry: Library
- Download: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/gaz.owl
- Home: http://environmentontology.github.io/gaz/
- Documentation: None
- Contact: Lynn Schriml
- Help: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/obo-gazetteer
- Description: A gazetteer constructed on ontological principles. The countries are actively maintained.
Annotations
- comment: This is an alpha version and is only for experimental implementation.
- comment: Acknowledgements and sources: A large number of sources have been, and are being, used to build gaz.obo. By far
- comment: Administrative regions: Statoids: www.statoids.com/
- comment: Antarctic: Antarctic Place-names Committee; http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/apc/
- comment: Antarctic: Bulgarian antarctic Gazetteer: http://id-team.org/apc/Apcbg-Web-New_files/gazet.htm
- comment: Antarctic: http://apple.arcoveggio.enea.it/SCAR_GAZE
- comment: Antarctic: http://geonames.usgs.gov/antform.html
- comment: Antarctica & Southern Oceans: Stonehouse (ed) Encyclopedia of Antractica and the Southern Oceans. J. Wiley, 2002. [ISBN:0471986658]
- comment: Arctic: IBRU. http://www.dur.ac.uk/ibru/resources/arctic/
- comment: Australia: Great Barrier Reef: http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/
- comment: Australia: Placenames: http://www.ga.gov.au/map/names/
- comment: Australia: Rivers: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/vegetation/MajorRivers.htm#lcma
- comment: Bangladesh/Inida enclaves: B.R. Whyte, 2002, Waiting for the Esquimo, Melbourne. [ISBN:0734022085]
- comment: Bourkina Faso: Administrative areas: http://www.inforoute-communale.gov.bf/list_vill/liste_vill.htm
- comment: Canada Census Divisions: http://dsp-psd.pwgsc.gc.ca/Collection/Statcan/92F0149X/92F0149XIB-e.html
- comment: Caves, show caves: http://www.showcaves.com/english/
- comment: Comments etc to Michael Ashburner, ma11@gen.cam.ac.uk
- comment: Coral Reefs: Spalding et al. (eds) University of California Press, 2001; World Atlas of Coral Reefs, 2001. [ISBN:0520232550]
- comment: Czech protected areas: http://www.cittadella.cz/europarc/index.php?p=index&site=default_enremark: General: Geonames: http://www.geonames.org/
- comment: Deepsea: Yancey, Deep=Sea Biology: http://people.whitman.edu/; yancey/deepsea.html
- comment: East Himalayas: East Himalaya Gazetteer: http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/nepal/ehgaz/index.html
- comment: England & Wales: Coasts: Steers, Coastline of England & Wales, 2nd ed. 1969. [ISBN:0521065488]
- comment: England Fen waterways: Blair, Fenland Waterways of the Middle Level. Imray Laurie Norie, 2009. [ISBN:9781846231896]
- comment: France: rivers: SANDRE: http://sandre.eaufrance.fr
- comment: General: Columbia Gazetteer: http://www.columbiagazetteer.org/main/Home.html
- comment: General: Maps: Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/
- comment: General: Maps: UN Map Library: http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/maplib/maplib.htm
- comment: General: NGIA: http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/namefiles.htm
- comment: General: Second Administrative Level Boundaries: http://www.unsalb.org/
- comment: General: The Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use: http://www.pcgn.org.uk/
- comment: General: Toponymic Guidelines: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/UNGEGN/wgGuidelines.html
- comment: Glaciers: World Glacier Inventory: http://nsidc.org/data/docs/noaa/g01130_glacier_inventory/
- comment: Greenland: Haug, Gazetteer of Greenland. http://www.ntnu.no/ub/formidl/utgivelser/til_opplysning/to_nr15.php
- comment: Iceland: Halfdanarson (Ed) The Visitor's Key to Iceland. Reykjavik, 1999 (English edition). [ISBN:9979877227]
- comment: India: Wetlands: http://envfor.nic.in/divisions/csurv/Wetland%20Inventory.pdf
- comment: Ireland: Haug, Gazetteer of Ireland: www.ntnu.no/ub/formidl/utgivelser/til_opplysning/to_nr16.pdf
- comment: Islands: UNEP Islands: http://islands.unep.ch/
- comment: Japan: General: http://www.gsi.go.jp/EN/pape_e300284.html
- comment: Japan: Wetlands: http://www.sizenken.biodic.go.jp/pc/wet_en/map.html
- comment: Lakes: World Lake Database: http://wldb.ilec.or.jp/
- comment: Meglithic sites: http://www.megalithic.co.uk/
- comment: Mexico: Municipalities: http://www.e-local.gob.mx/wb2/ELOCAL/ELOC_Enciclopedia
- comment: Mines: MINDAT: http://www.mindat.org/
- comment: Mountains & Mountain Chains: PEAKBAGGER: http://www.peakbagger.com/
- comment: North Korea: libweb.uoregon.edu/ec/e-asia/read/northkorgaz.pdf
- comment: Norway, Svalbard and Jan Mayen Place Names: http://miljo.npolar.no/placenames/pages/searchE.asp
- comment: Oceans & Seas: 3rd edition: www.iho-ohi.net/iho_pubs/standard/S-23/S23_1953.pdf
- comment: Oceans and Seas: 4th edition: [IHO:Limits of Oceans and Seas, 1986 (Draft 4th edition)]
- comment: Oceans, Vent fields: InterRidge Global Database of Active Submarine Hydrothermal Vent Fields. http://www.interridge.org/
- comment: Pacific, Protected areas; http://www.pbif.org/
- comment: Philippines, Administrative areas: http://www.nscb.gov.ph/activestats/psgc/listreg.asp
- comment: RAMSAR sites: http://www.ramsar.org/cda/en/ramsar-documents-list/main/ramsar/1-31-218_4000_0__
- comment: Scotland: An Encyclopedia of Places and Landscape." Compiled by D. Munro. [ISBN:04724666]
- comment: Scotland: Coasts: Steers, Coastline of Scotland, 1973. [ISBN:9780521086967]
- comment: Scotland: Islands: Haswell-Smith (1996) "Scottish Islands". Edinburgh. [ISBN:0862415799]
- comment: Scotland: Shetland. Shetlopedia: http://shetlopedia.com/Main_Page
- comment: Scotland: general: Scotland: The Gazetteer for Scotland. Scotland: http://www.scottish-places.info/
- comment: Seamounts: Seamounts Online: http://seamounts.sdsc.edu/
- comment: Singapore: http://www.zrc-sazu.si/ungegn/toponymi.htm
- comment: Slovakia: Protected areas: http://uzemia.enviroportal.sk/
- comment: South Africa: Reservoirs & dams: http://www.dwaf.gov.za/iwqs/gis_apps/dam/dams/index.htm
- comment: Swaziland: Administrative divisions: http://www.sahims.net/gis/Sahims_Gis_Data/Swaziland%20admin%203.htm
- comment: Tanzania: Wards: http://www.tanzania.go.tz/census/
- comment: UK & former Empire: Naval ports: http://www.gwpda.org/naval/dkbk0000.htm
- comment: UK Cumbria: http://www.thecumbriadirectory.com/
- comment: UK: Caves: http://ukcaving.com/wiki/index.php/
- comment: UK: Coal mines etc: http://www.dmm.org.uk/colliery/index_a.htm
- comment: UK: Lakes: http://www.uklakes.net/
- comment: UK: Placenames: Gazetteer of British Placenames: http://www.gazetteer.co.uk/
- comment: UK: Ports: http://www.abports.co.uk/
- comment: US, CA: rivers: http://museumca.org/creeks/
- comment: US: General: http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/download_data.htm.
- comment: US: Hot sprinngs: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/results?op_0=eq&v_0=&op_1=l&v_1=&op_2=l&v_2=&t=100006&s=1&d=1
- comment: US: INCITS38:2009, Codes for the Identification of the States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Insular Areas of the United States [INCITS38]
- comment: US: Protected areas: http://www.wilderness.net/
- comment: US: Yellowstone, Hydrothermal features: http://www.rcn.montana.edu/resources/?nav=11
- comment: Undersea features: General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans: http://www.gebco.net/data_and_products/undersea_feature_names/
- comment: Version 2 of August 7 2011.
- comment: Volcanic features: Smithsonian Institution - Global Volcanism Program: http://www.volcano.si.edu/index.cfm
- comment: Wetlands: International Water Management Instituteh: http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/wetlands/WetlandDir.asp
- comment: Wetlands: The Wetlands Database: http://www.wetlands.or.id/wdb/wdb.php
- comment: World Heritage Sites: UN http://whc.unesco.org/en/list: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list
- comment: Zimbabwe" Administrative regions: www.law.co.zw/index.php/defence.../155-names-alteration-act.html
- comment: of those who contribute to this invaluable resource. In addition, a number of other sources have been
- comment: the most used are the pages of Wikipedia, which seem to be quite accurate in this domain. Thanks to all
- comment: used quite extensively and I wish to acknowledge, with thanks, the following (which is not exhaustive):
- date: 27:04:2014 15:24
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- has_obo_format_version: 1.2
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Number of Terms (including imported terms) (Detailed Statistics)
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- ObjectProperty (15)
- AnnotationProperty (33)
Number of SPARQL queries:8
