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FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
Gazetteer Quadruples Coverage to 166,000 Cities, Towns & Neighborhoods
Maps, directions, local search, resources & data
for nearly all populated places
VERO BEACH, FL - January 10, 2008 (INB) -- The
HomeTownLocator® Gazetteer has just expanded its
coverage to include nearly every populated place in
the United States. The site is now organized into a
series of 50 State Gazetteers which provide maps,
data and information for 166,000 populated places
and 1.7 million physical, cultural and historic
features.
Matt Smith, President & CEO of HTL, Inc. announced
today that the new state gazetteers, linked from
www.HomeTownLocator.com, have allowed expanded
coverage from 42,000 to 166,000 locations while
maintaining an easy to use navigation system.
Smith said, "The expansion came by adding data
and information for very small communities and
thousands of neighborhoods and subdivisions in
larger cities and towns. Our goal was to have at
least basic data and information for every place
in the United States that people call home."
Visitors to the HomeTownLocator Gazetteer can
access local information, maps and aerial
photos with a search by name, ZIP code, area
code or county. Available data includes census,
demographic and economic information, plus
physical, cultural and historical features.
Nearby schools, hospitals, airports and hotels
are also easily located.
The HomeTownLocator Gazetteer was initially
launched in November 2003. Last week, the U.S.
Geological Survey (USGS) began linking to the
new state gazetteers. HomeTownLocator now
provides a mapping service for more then one
million Geographic Name Information System (GNIS)
Feature Detail Reports
(GNIS URL: geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/).
URL: www.HomeTownLocator.com
About HTL, Inc.
Matt and Carolyn Smith, the owner/managers of
HTL, Inc., began producing geographically focused
websites in 1995 when they launched a series of
Internet "TownCenter" Websites for a dozen South
Florida communities. The current HomeTownLocator
family of sites began in 2003 and has become a
popular resource with more than a million unique
visits and several million page views each month
(Quantcast URL: www.quantcast.com/www.hometownlocator.com).
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