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. Highways represents the major and minor highways of the United States. These include interstates, U.S. highways, state highways, major roads, and minor roads. This dataset is from the Census 2000 TIGER/Line files. It contains all Class 1, 2, and 3 road segments plus any other road segments necessary to provide network connectivity for the Class_Rte field.