2. Some major goals/dreams

• Every country having some form of authority for geographical names
• Standardized (“authorized”) forms of names nationally recognized and used
• All authorized names easily available and accessible for international use
• All languages/writing systems having a standardized conversion to Roman orthography

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Some areas of common interest

• Field collection of locally used names (resolving questions of recording and writing)
• Names authorities and standardization processes
• Disseminating data - gazetteers, digital files, data transfer standards, world wide web ...
• Developing national toponymic guidelines for international cartographic use
• Conventional names and exonyms