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Submittal process to recognize native names
Frank Roberts
Coeur d’Alene Tribe GIS
Topics
• Native Names database
• Process at Coeur d’Alene Tribe
• Time Line
• Parallel process GNIS – Native Names
The database
• Database is available for download
• Direction are found in the zip file (NativeNamesTableDescriptions.pdf)
• Database is designed both to supply GNIS with needed fields and CDA Tribe
• Required fields are listed in red
At completion
• One copy is sent to the Coeur d’Alene Tribe
• Another copy is sent to GNIS - Jenny Runion
CDA Tribe copy
• Database received by the Coeur d’Alene Tribe will be merged with SQL server table
• As soon as tables are merged those names appear on The National Map.
How TNM link works
• Some one opens TNM
• By default Native Names is off
• When then turn them on the names are sent from Plummer to the TNM server and a composite image is drawn back on the clients machine.
TNM
USGS EROS
CDA Tribe
Name
http://nationalmap.gov/
GNIS Side
• Once database is sent to Jenny she inputs the data into the GNIS database
• It took about two weeks for her to work through the Coeur d’Alene names
• Once the names are input they become part of the national GNIS database
http://geonames.usgs.gov/
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