[rdfweb-dev] Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

[Bill Kearney]

Why yes, I've made rather a lot of use of it. Their licensing, however, is
heinously expensive.

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From: "Danny Ayers" <danny666 at v...>
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Subject: [rdfweb-dev] Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names


> Sheesh, this has to be useful somewhere:
>
> http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/index.html
>
> I enter the name of a hamlet of maybe 8 houses in sheep-loving backwoods,
> after two clicks I get -
>
>
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> Place Records
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> [7025144]
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> Blackwell (inhabited place)
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> Lat: 53 14 N Long: 001 48 W (represented in degrees minutes direction)
> Lat: 53.233 Long: -1.800 (represented in decimal degress and fractions of
> degrees)
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>
> Note - Village near Tideswell; to be distinguished from another town named
> Blackwell in Derbyshire. Jedediah Strutt, who with Arkwright invented the
> spinning jenny, had a farm here.
>
> Hierarchical Position:
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> Europe..........................(continent)
> United Kingdom..................(nation)
> England.........................(country)
> Derbyshire......................(county)
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> Names:
> Blackwell (C,V)
> Blacheuuelle (H,V)...................... recorded in 1086
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> Place Types:
> inhabited place (C)
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> Sources:
> Blacheuuelle............................ Domesday Book (1985), 68 [VP]
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> Blackwell............................... Domesday Book (1985), 68 [VP]
> Gazetteer of Great Britain
> (1999), 77 [VP]
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