Cultural Feature (point)
The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is the Federal standard for geographic nomenclature in support of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. The Cultural Features layer (CULTURAL_FEATURE) in the GNIS Web Map Service contains all features in the database with Feature Class of Cemetery, Dam, Locale, Mine, Military (historical), Oilfield, Tower, Trail, Well. See http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/feature_class.htm for feature class values and definitions. The CULTURAL_FEATURE250 layer contains large features designated by the Geographic Names Office as ones that should be labeled on maps or displays with a scale of 1:250,000. See http://geonames.usgs.gov for additional information.
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