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Toponymical guidelines for map and other editors

Written by Tjeerd Tichelaar and Ferjan Ormeling

 

Toponymic guidelines aim at systematically presenting information for each country about:

• Languages, distribution and status

• Linguistic and administrative maps

• Alphabet used, phonetic value of characters

• Use of capitalization, word strings

• Names standardization authorities

• Published source material on geographical names

• Glossary of generic elements* within toponyms

* definition can be found in UN Glossary

 

Toponymic guidelines aim to be practical professional instruments for:

toponymists, geographers and cartographers.

They show how geographic names for a specific country should be rendered.

For definitions see UN Glossary!

 

Links to topographic guideline websites:

Austria, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia