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A gazetteer is a database that stores information about a set of geographic features, classified using terms taken from a given feature type thesaurus. A geographic information system may integrate one or more gazetteers to create a consolidated information source about the data the system stores, for example [9]. However, as in a data-warehouse creation process, gazetteer integration requires aligning feature type thesauri, which is the central question we address in this paper.
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Brauner, D.F., Casanova, M.A., Milidiú, R.L. (2007). Towards Gazetteer Integration through an Instance-based Thesauri Mapping Approach. In: Davis, C.A., Monteiro, A.M.V. (eds) Advances in Geoinformatics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73414-7_15
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