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Compusult's
WES Gazetteer is an easy to install, standards
based gazetteer with lightning fast name
look-up.
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Overview
| Compusult's WES Gazetteer
provides standards-based world coverage
for place name lookup. |
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Web Enterprise
Suite (WES) Gazetteer is an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) - enabled gazetteer service
that provides world coverage for place name
look-up services.
A gazetteer is list of geographic names, together
with their geographic locations and other descriptive
(metadata) information.
Diagram of WES Gazetteer
WES Gazetteer
place names and associated metadata is populated
in a database and is composed of content from
the following sources:
- NGA Gazetteer - The National
Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA)
database of foreign geographic feature names.
Coverage is world-wide, excluding the United
States and Antarctica.
- Geographic Names Information System
(GNIS) - Developed by the USGS
in cooperation with the U.S. Board on Geographic
Names (BGN), contains information about almost
2 million physical and cultural geographic
features in the United States.
This service is available on both UNIX and
Windows® platforms, contains easy installation
procedures and standards-based interfaces for
searching, discovery and access in the HTTP
computing environment.
WES Gazetteer
is a component of Compusult’s Web
Enterprise Suite; a set of Internet-based
applications and toolkits that support Web mapping,
information cataloging, discovery, retrieval
and delivery services.
 WES
Gazetteer is also a contributor
to the Open Geospatial Consortium Catalogue Services Interoperability
initiative.
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