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Name Lookup Dictionaries
Appendix > Name Lookup Dictionaries

This section lists the source documents used to derive the dictionary files used in the Name Lookup feature (see Tools -> Place Highway Text: Name Lookup).

U.S. Dictionaries

AASHTO Control Cities Dictionary

Guide Signs, Part III: List of Control Cities for Use in Guide Signs on Interstate Highways, 2001, by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, Washington, D.C.

State Dictionaries

Credit: U.S. Geological Survey U.S. Board on Geographic Names

Department of the Interior/USGS

Domestic Names - State and Tropical Gazetteer - http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/download_data.htm

National File last revised on Feb. 5, 2008

Canadian Dictionaries

The Complete Set of Canadian Geographical Names

Reproduced with the permission of Natural Resources Canada 2008, courtesy of the Canadian Geographical Names Service.

http://gnss.nrcan.gc.ca/gnss-srt/searchName.jsp

Australian Dictionaries

© Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2006

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