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/