On Tue, 13 Jan 1998 10:06:09 -0600 "Fred H. Held" <fhheld@freewwweb.com> writes: >ATTENTION: individuals looking for locations in Pennsylvania or >anywhere in >the world. Here are several excellent free internet sources for >finding >locations. > >The US Government Maping Service has a site at >http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html that gives many towns >plus >other details, including schools, churches, and cemeteries. Use your >government resources. Select a county in a state and it will give you >several pages of detail locations you can then identify on a high >quality >map you can print off. Modern townships are in the database. Just >follow >the instructions. > >Another free service is MapQuest at http://www.mapquest.com. This will >give >locations for any modern place in the world, including street maps of >US >and foreign cities. This is good for finding those little known places >in >Pennsylvania, as well as those small villages in Germany. (Note to >Scott >Stoner. Mapquest shows 4 Clintons in Pennsylvania. One on Butler Co >and one >in Armstrong Co The one in Armstrong Co is on the Allegheny River a >few >miles above Freeport. See the map forwarded.) > >A third outstanding location finder for Eastern Europe is ShtetlSeeker >at >http://www1.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/loctown.htm. This will locate >small >towns and villages anywhere in Eastern Europe, including Germany. It >allows >a Soundex variation, so you don't need the exact spelling. It responds >with >a table of possible hits, which you may then display the location via >MapQuest, by just clicking on the Lat-Long given. It has the feature >that >you can enter a Lat-Long location of your own choice (closeby major >city) >and it will give you miles and direction from that point. The default >direction and distance is from the country capitol. > >Another is only good for locations in Germany and is an email service >called GeoServ. Go to http://www.qrz.com/gene/www/abt/geoserv.html to >get >instructions. This service is handled exclusively by email messages. >Instead of using Soundex, it allows wildcard descriptions. > > >Fred Held > > > >==== PAARMSTR Mailing List ==== >To contact Patti Caldwell Fasy, Listmistress, click below: > mailto:glitters@naples.infi.net >remember, "Please practice random acts of kindness"........ > > >Thanks for the internet map locations. Having the ability to find where some of these counties are will be very helpful. Jean McDermott >