E07: Office processing, standardization
 
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Exercise 1: Looking up data fields

 

 

In chapter 3 (task 3) of the self study part of this module, ttop data fields have been described as essential for names documentation. Check which of these fields (see below) are contained in a commercial names server like GeoNames http://www.geonames.org/. Check this also for other names servers.

1 Toponym
2 Feature type
3 Administrative unit
4 Geographical coordinates
5 Locational narrative
6 Variant names
7 Status of name
8 Date of approval of name
9 Record identifie
10 Other fields
   

 

 
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