Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers

by Merrick Lex Berman

Well before the innovation of maps, gazetteers served as the main geographic referencing system for hundreds of years. Consisting of a specialized index of place names, gazetteers traditionally linked descriptive elements with topographic features and coordinates. Placing Names is inspired by that tradition of discursive place-making and by contemporary approaches to digital data management that have revived the gazetteer and guided its...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253022444
• ISBN13: 9780253022448
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher