Welcome to Module 8, Using and Implementing Gazetteers.

A gazetteer is a dictionary of geographic names, including their locations and other descriptive information. The CGDI provides several gazetteer services for you, and your users, to find geographic regions based on place names or postal codes.

In this module, you will learn about CGDI gazetteer services, including:

• The Postal Code Lookup Service;
• The CGDI Place Name Lookup Service;
• The Canadian Geographical Name Service Place Name Gazetteer;
• The Canadian Geographical Name Service Server;
• The National Topographic System Lookup Service; and
• The World Place Name Gazetteer.

This module comprises 15 pages, and should take you about 30 minutes to complete.