Date:         Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:02:00 -0500
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From:         "Colleen R. Cahill" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      Some news on Coordinates in Authorities
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All of the NACO partners are now ready to deal with the 034 field in
authority records, so the Library of Congress is looking what is needed to
test this data.  One area is codes for sources of data.  Below is a very
short list some sources for coordinates: I am looking for other
suggestions.  At this point, we are not worried about what the code will
be, just defining a source of data.  Please send any ideas you have to the
list; hopefully this will give us a beginning set of codes.


List of sources for Coordinates

Columbia Gazetteer
ESRI Arcview
Geographic Names of Canada http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/index_e.php
Geoscience Australia Place Names http://www.ga.gov.au/map/names/
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online http://www.ga.gov.au/map/names/ 
Miriam Websters Geographical Dictionary
NGA GEOnet Names Server http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/index.html 
Rand McNally Commercial Atlas
USGS Geonames http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic

Thank you!
Colleen
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