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Group populated place is the most dominant in the Gazetteer. It has
subclasses: town, city, capital, county center, municipality, settlement,
village, touristic village, economy settlement, etc. The next feature group
the mostly used in map sheet naming are: landforms, waters, islands,
peninsulas, islets and reefs and areas. The number of named places in each
feature class depends on geomorphology of the country, scale and feature
density.
7- Croatian gazetteer internet service
Croatian geographic names information system is developed in accordance
with international (UNGEGN, EuroGeoNames and INSPIRE) and the Na-
tional Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). Croatian Geodetic Institute has
published Gazetteer web service on the Internet address
http://cgnd.cgi.hr:8081
(see
Fig. 3
). The Gazetteer contains endonyms.
In the moment, Gazetteer data are based on topographic map of the scale
1:200 000 and other sources. Proportional to the scale is also catalog of
geographical features (objects). The service provides search of geographi-
cal names on the Croatian territory by name or part of the name, according
to the classification of geographic objects and spatial search by counties.
Name querying is not case insensitive (e.g. query for „Knin” or „kNiN” or
„knin” are giving the same results). As additional option „identical” or
„contain” type of query could be chosen. Identical querying will give
results with identical geographical names, and „contain” will give geo-
graphical name that contain requested text. Spatial querying after counties
is giving opportunity to search for names only in selected counties.
Visualization of a name could be made choosing Google Map background
off-line correction of the name or name attributes. Service is also enabling
to make on or off-line proposal of the new geographical name.
