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The ''Gazetteer for Scotland'' is a gazetteer covering the geography, history and people of Scotland. It was conceived in 1995 by Bruce Gittings of the University of Edinburgh and David Munro of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, and contains 15,500 entries as of January 2008, making it one of the largest Scottish-based web sites. It claims to be "the largest Scottish resource available on the web". Following on from a strong Scottish tradition on geographical publishing, the ''Gazetteer for Scotland'' is the first comprehensive gazetteer to be produced for the country since Francis Groome's ''Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland'' (1882-6) (the text of which is incorporated into relevant entries). The aim is not to produce a travel guide, of which there are many, but to write a substantive and thoroughly edited description of the country, including industrial sites and many other features not of tourist interest. In terms of the web, the ''Gazetteer for Scotland'' is historically interesting because it is one of the earliest decisions to take what would have been a book and make it available as a website, realising that the content would grow to much larger than could be economically publishable. The web medium also permitted many more illustrations that would be possible in print. A book has, in fact, been published as a later output of this project ''Scotland: An Encyclopedia of Places and Landscape'' (2006), which distills the keys facts from the ''Gazetteer for Scotland'' database, together with high-quality mapping, into a handy reference form. The ''Gazetteer for Scotland'' was also a pioneer in terms of geographical information and mapping on the web. ==See also== *''Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland'' *''Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'' *List of online encyclopedias 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gazetteer for Scotland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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