Well before the innovation of maps, gazetteers served as the main geographic referencing system for hundreds of years. Consisting of a specialized index of plac

"Outlines the policy of the Army Map Service in the treatment of place names on military maps. It supersedes the First Edition of AMS Memorandum 453 dated 2 Feb

"Indexing Names covers names from classical and medieval times and those belonging to particular ethnicities and nationalities, along with those peculiar to spe