U.S. Geographic Names Information System Buildings : ESRI Data & Maps 2010

Description:

U.S. Geographic Names Information System Buildings represents the Federal standard for geographic nomenclature and contains information about the proper names and locations of physical and cultural geographic features located throughout the United States and its Territories. The U.S. Geological Survey developed the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) for the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, a Federal inter-agency body chartered by public law to maintain uniform feature name usage throughout the Government and to promulgate standard names to the public.

Creator:

Geological Survey (U.S.) and Environmental Systems Research Institute (Redlands, Calif.)

Publisher:

ESRI

Provider:

Harvard

Resource Class:

Datasets

Resource Type:

Point data

Subject:

Buildings, Public buildings, location, structure, society, point, building, place name, elevation, geographic feature, and structure

Temporal Coverage:

1981, 2009, and 1974

Date Issued:

2010-06-30

Spatial Coverage:

United States, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands of the United States, Guam, Micronesia (Federated States), Palau, American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands, United States, U.S. Commonwealths, U.S. Territories, and U.S. Freely Associated States

Access Rights:

Restricted

Format:

Shapefile