Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site hpfcla.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!qantel!hplabs!hpfcdc!hpfcla!ajs From: ajs@hpfcla.UUCP Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Bizarre place names Message-ID: <18500017@hpfcla.UUCP> Date: Wed, 11-Sep-85 11:55:00 EDT Article-I.D.: hpfcla.18500017 Posted: Wed Sep 11 11:55:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 15-Sep-85 11:43:09 EDT Organization: 11 Sep 85 09:55:00 MDT Lines: 18 The problem with posting bizarre place names is that there are just too many too choose from! For example, if you buy the US Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System data base for just one state (let's say, Colorado), and then you look only at FEATURE CLASS == ppl (population center), that gives you 780 names to review, from which it is easy to extract (and these are just the stranger ones)... 393058N 1075520W Anvil Points 392241N 1061059W Climax 393744N 1052144W Elephant Park 381645N 1043335W Fearnowville 381540N 1044010W Goodnight 401119N 1051049W Hygiene 384403N 1033207W Kkrval 394427N 1033528W Last Chance ... Alan Silverstein Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com