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Gazetteers are knowledge organization systems for indexing place names and information about named places. Many gazetteers include the coordinates of places so that users can map places and navigate to them. Gazetteers may also incorporate vocabularies of place types so that people can easily determine whether a given name refers to a settlement or to a mountain, for instance. When you query Google Maps for directions to a restaurant or a gas station, you are sending a search to a gazetteer. Gazetteers are key infrastructure for the geospatial internet as well as powerful reference works.

In this module, you will learn how to make a gazetteer and how to index it in the World Historical Gazetteer, a web-based platform that offers infrastructure and content for linking knowledge about the past via place. 

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