“A set of terms for categories of geographic places; terms to indicate the nature of a place.”
ADL Feature Type Thesaurus, FTT
http://legacy.alexandria.ucsb.edu/gazetteer/FeatureTypes/ver070302/index...
Type terms for administrative, hydrographic, manmade, physiographic, and regional places.
“It has been designed to be used with the Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) Gazetteer.”
Used as the type scheme for the ADL Gazetteer. See http://legacy.alexandria.ucsb.edu/gazetteer/. Also, adopted by the USGS as a set of terms to use along with their Gateway Thesaurus. See http://geo-nsdi.er.usgs.gov/feat
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Note: for this XML version, the "US+" and "UF+" relationships have been changed to "USW" and "UFW" coding and all angle brackets have been removed from the definitions. The USW and UFW relationships are used when a non-preferred term is linked to two preferred terms.
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