Geographic Nameserver

Unfortunately, the geographic nameserver has been permanently terminated after almost 3 years of service. Our source of data at the University of Michigan said:

The Geographic Nameserver was taken offline around October 12, 1997. It was running on a very old Vax 3100 (purchased around Feb 1988). The machine failed, and there was no intention of repairing it. There is no source code, so it can't be ported to another platform. Also, the data was at least 10 years old.

A more up-to-date Geographic Nameserver can be found at:

http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html