The AIS includes a classifier table of physical geography objects
and regions of the world. It was created as a result of
analysis of different geographic atlases, review maps of
different countries of the world, aeronavigation and topographic
maps. The table included several thousands of names of mountains,
ridges, lakes, islands and rivers with their synonyms and other
forms of spelling. It is important that all objects listed
above are classified by physical geography country, region and
subregion indicated in "Physical Geography Atlas of the World"
(1964) and in "Physical Geography of the USSR" (1966). The size
and precision of the table of physical geography objects and
also its differentiation on the level of classification (they
are systematized by 22 taxonomic categories) created the needed
prerequisites for presenting data in greater detail in
the description of local regions and for the interpretation of data
on the distribution of fleas and possibly other groups of
animals. It is also important that this table permits to
gradually accumulate and use (in the process of work) the entire
diversity of synonymic names and forms of spelling.
|
Number of records and size |
27 600 records - 7.0 Mb |
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Number of objects |
1730 mountains, 1400 ridges, 1200 lakes, 6300 rivers etc. - with synonyms and other forms |
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Number of taxa various ranks |
103 geographic countries, 309 regions, 846 subregions etc. |
| Sources |
"Physical Geography Atlas of the World" (1964), "Physical Geography of the USSR" (1966), "Atlas of the World" (1954), "The Times Atlas" (1998) etc. - 10 atlases in total; more than 100 maps of different countries, aeronavigation and topographic maps (scale 1:1 000 000/2 500 000) |