Towards Gazetteer Integration Through an Instance-based Thesauri Mapping Approach

A gazetteer is a database that stores information about a set of geographic features, classified using terms taken from a given feature type thesaurus. A geographic information system may integrate one or more gazetteers to create a consolidated information source about the data the system stores, for example [9]. However, as in a data-warehouse creation process, gazetteer integration requires aligning feature type thesauri, which is the central question we address in this paper.