Well before the innovation of maps, gazetteers served as the main geographic referencing system for hundreds of years. Consisting of a specialized index of place names, gazetteers traditionally linked descriptive elements with topographic features and coordinates. Placing Names is inspired by that tradition of discursive place-making and by contemporary approaches to digital data management that have revived the gazetteer and guided its development in recent decades. Adopted by researchers in the Digital Humanities and Spatial Sciences, gazetteers provide a way to model the kind of complex cultural, vernacular, and perspectival ideas of place that can be located in texts and expanded into an interconnected framework of naming history. This volume brings together leading and emergent scholars to examine the history of the gazetteer, its important role in geographic information science, and its use to further the reach and impact of spatial reasoning into the digital age.

Preface by: Peter Bol
Contributions by: Michael Frank Goodchild, Helen Kerfoot, Ryan Shaw, Raj Singh, Karl Grossner, Krzysztof Janowicz, Carsten Kessler, Rainer Simon, Leif Isaksen, Elton Barker, Pau de Soto Canamares, Johan Ahlfeldt, Marc Wick, Janelle Jenstad, Paul S. Ell, Lorna Hughes, Michael R. Fournier, Youcheol Kim, Byungnam Yoon, Jonghyuk Kim, Hyunjong Kim, Mark Henderson, Karl E. Ryavec, Tsunetoshi Mizoguchi, Pi-ling Pai, I-chun Fan