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A gazetteer is an online "dictionary" of geospatial
words or terms, with or without applicable feature geometries.
The Gazetteer Service is used to transform a set of place
names into a set of stored geometry. The geometry is specific
with respect to the coordinate reference system.
For example, a Gazetteer system may be able to transform
the name of a city into a polygon or a single point that represents
that city. A Gazetteer system may include the capability to
do geocoding, which means it would be able to convert a street
address to a geographic location.
The Gazetteer Service specification is a specialization of
the Web Feature
Service specification. The GAZ provides for multi-lingual
environments.
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see also: Geoparser
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