Description: U.S. Geographic Names Information System Hospitals represents the Federal standard for geographic nomenclature and contains information about the proper names and locations of physical and cultural geographic features located throughout the United States and its Territories. The U.S. Geological Survey developed the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) for the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, a Federal inter-agency body chartered by public law to maintain uniform feature name usage throughout the Government and to promulgate standard names to the public.
Description: U.S. National Atlas Airports represents airports in the United States, Puerto Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands with airport passenger enplanements of 25 passengers or more per year.
Description: U.S. Major Highways represents the major highways of the United States. These include interstates, U.S. highways, state highways, and major roads. This dataset is from the Census 2000 TIGER/Line files. It contains all Class 1 and 2 road segments plus any other road segments necessary to provide network connectivity for the Class_Rte field.