S08: Multilingual names, minority names
  
 

14. Map use criteria
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When we look for specific spatial information on the area where we live, in order to get the required map that can be read, we need:

  • Title in our own language
  • Legend and marginal information in our own language
  • Place names in our own language
  • Generics, abbreviations and letter symbols in our own language
  • The cartographic point of view is that toponyms are only for identification, not for politics

Map scripts

 

 

Are these name categories also available on the topographic maps of your country in your own language?

 
 
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