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    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 - https://www.usgs.gov/us-board-on-geographic-names/download-gnis-data

    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.

    https://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/search-place-names/search

    Australian Dictionaries

    © Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2006

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