Compiled by Helen Kerfoot (Canada)
United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names
• http://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/
Divisions of the Group of Experts
• Baltic Division
http://www.eki.ee/knn/ungegn/index.htm
• Dutch- and German-speaking Division
• Ständiger Ausschuss für geographische Namen (StAGN) http://www.bkg.bund.de/kartographie/stagn/stagn.htm
• East Central and South-East Europe Division http://www.sigov.si/kszi
• French-speaking Division
http://www.divisionfrancophone.org
• Romano-Hellenic Division http://www.igmi.org
Working Groups of the Group of Experts
• Country names
• List of country names (United Nations Cartography Section, United Nations, New York)
http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/english/geoinfo/geoname.pdf
• Exonyms
http://www.zrc-sazu.si/wge
• Publicity and funding
• Group of Experts brochure: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/documents.htm
• Romanization http://www.eki.ee/wgrs/
• Letter database (displaying languages, special characters and Unicode with images of the letters) at Institute of the Estonian Language http://www.eki.ee/letter/
• Toponymic data files and gazetteers http://www.zrc-sazu.si/ungegn/
• Training courses in toponymy http://toponymycourses.geog.uu.nl/
• Web-based toponymy training courses
• International Cartographic Association: http://lazarus.elte.hu/cet/
• L’Université Laval (Canada): http://www.toponymie.gouv.qc.ca.
Path: Outils.
Group of Experts: toponymic guidelines
• Austria
http://www.oeaw.ac.at/dinamlex
• Estonia
http://www.eki.ee/knn/ungegn/un7_gdl.htm
• Finland
http://www.kotus.fi/inenglish/toponymicguidelines/toponymicguidelines.shtml
• Germany
http://www.bkg.bund.de/Kartographie/Stagn/tr_engl/f_Empfnam_e.htm
• Norway
http://www.statkart.no/virksomh/forvaltning/navnlov/guidelines.html
• Poland
http://www.gugik.gov.pl/komisja/tgp.htm
• Slovakia
http://www.geodesy.gov.sk/sgn/typonym/Eng/typoframe.htm
• Slovenia
http://www.sigov.si/kszi/ang/top_guide.pdf United Nations
• United Nations home page http://www.un.org/english/
• United Nations Map Library (Group of Experts documents) http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/maplib/ungegn.htm
• United Nations: cartography (United Nations Cartographic Section) http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/english/
• United Nations Statistics Division http://www.un.org/depts/unsd International organizations
• International Council of Onomastic Sciences (ICOS): general information http://fuzzy.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/icosweb/
• International Hydrographic Organization (IHO)
• General information: http://www.iho.shom.fr/
• General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/gebco
• International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
• General information and ISO catalogue: http://www.iso.ch/
• ISO Technical Committee dealing with Geographic Information/Geomatics http://www.isotc211.org/
• Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR): Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica http://www.scar.org/Publications/bulletins/webbull_138a.htmortium
• Unicode Consortium
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/consortium/memblogo.html Countries: national names authorities
• Australia and New Zealand: Committee for Geographical Names in Australasia (CGNA) http://www.icsm.gov.au/icsm/cgna/
• Canada: Geographical Names Board of Canada (GNBC) http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/info/gnbc_e.php
• Czech Republic: Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre http://www.cuzk.cz/
• Estonia
• Place Names Board of Estonia: http://www.eki.ee/knn/index2.htm
• Place Names Act of Estonia: http://www.eki.ee/knn/kns2.htm
• Finland: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland http://www.kotus.fi/inenglish/
• France: Institut Géographique National: toponymie
http://www.ign.fr/affiche_rubrique.asp?rbr_id=926&lng_id-FR
• Iceland: Place Name Committee
http://www.ismal.hi.is/ornefnanefnd.html
• Iranian Committee for Standardization of Geographical Names http://geonames.ncc.org.ir
• Lithuania: State Commission of the Lithuanian Language http://www.vlkk.lt
• New Zealand: The New Zealand Geographic Board/Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa
http://www.linz.govt.nz/rcs/linz/pub/web/root/core/Placenames/nzgeographicboard/index.jsp
• Slovakia: geographical names authorities and the pertinent acts http://www.geodesy.gov.sk/sgn/typonym/Eng/typoframe.htm
• Slovenia: Slovene Governmental Commission for the Standardisation of Geographical Names
http://www.sigov.si/kszi/
• South African Geographical Names Council (SAGNC)
http://www.dac.gov.za/about_us/cd_heritage/geographical_names/South_African_Geograp hical_Names_Council_(SAGNC).htm
• Spain: Instituto Geográfico Nacional http://www.mfom.es/ign
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use (PCGN)
http://www.pcgn.org.uk
• United States of America: United States Board on Geographic Names (BGN) http://geonames.usgs.gov/bgn.html
Countries: searchable databases of geographical names
• Australia
• 2005 Gazetteer of over 315,500 geographical names of Australia http://www.ga.gov.au/map/names/
• Australian Antarctic Gazetteer (Australian Antarctic Names and Medal Committee) http://www.antdiv.gov.au/default.asp?casid=5675
• Austria
• Hydrological Atlas of Austria: http://www.lebensministerium.at
• Atlas of Eastern and Southeastern Europe: http://www.osi.ac.at
• Bulgaria: Bulgaria Antarctic Gazetteer http://www.geocities.com/apcbg/
• Canada
• Canadian Geographical Names Data Base: http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/
• Canadian Geographical Names Service: http://cgns.nrcan.gc.ca
• Gazetteer Map Service http://atlas.gc.ca/site/english/dataservices/gazetteer.html
• Denmark: lists of authorized Danish place names http://www.navneforskning.dk
• Estonia: Place Names Database http://www.eki.ee/knab/knab.htm
• Finland
• National Land Survey of Finland
http://www.kartta.nls.fi/karttapaikka/eng/info/index.html
• Nordic Place Names Database (some 2000 place names stored in Unicode, including Saami-language characters): http://nondb.nls.fi/
• France: Institut Géographique National: Communes
http://www.ign.fr/affiche_rubrique.asp?rbr_id=889&lng_id=FR#41403
• Hungary
• Gazetteer of Hungary: http://fish.fomi.hu/angolfish/
• Detailed Gazetteer of Hungary
http://helynevtar.ksh.hu/index.php3?c_lang=en
• Japan
• Topographic Map Browsing System, 1:25,000: http://watchizu.gsi.go.jp
• Digital Japan web system: http://cyberjapan.jp
• Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Estadística Geografía e Informática (INEGI) database http://www.inegi.gob.mx
• New Zealand: Geographic Placenames Database
http://www.linz.govt.nz/rcs/linz/pub/web/root/core/Placenames/searchplacenames/index.jsp
• Norway: Central Place Names Register http://ngis2.statkart.no/ng2/ng2.html
• Poland: names of countries, their capitals and inhabitants http://www.gugik.gov.pl/komisja/
• Qatar: landmark and street names in GIS • Arabic: http://www.gisqatar.org.qa/new2a/
• Roman: http://www.gisqatar.org.qa/new2/
• South Africa: Official South African Geographical Names System http://sagns.dac.gov.za
• Spain: Registro de Entidades Locales http://www.dgal.map.es
• Sweden
• National Atlas of Sweden: The Swedish Gazetteer http://www.sna.se/gazetteer.html
• Land Survey place-name database: http://www.lantmateriet.se
• Switzerland: Federal Office of Topography: “SwissNames”
http://www.swisstopo.ch/en/digital/namen.htm
• United Kingdom
• Ordnance Survey (OS) geo-referenced street dataset ("National Street Gazetteer"
(NSG)): http://www.nsg.org.uk/
• Ordnance Survey (OS) placename search for Get-a-map http://www.getamap.co.uk/getamap_index.htm
• Ordnance Survey (OS): place-name search with 1:50,000 map http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/
• Ordnance Survey (OS) gazetteer of British place names
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/freefun/didyouknow/
• United States of America
• Geographic Names Information System (GNIS): http://geonames.usgs.gov/
• National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA): GEOnet Names Server, 4 million features for outside United States of America and Antarctica
http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/
• The National Map: http://www.nationalmap.usgs.gov
• United States Antarctica Geographic Names Database:
http://geonames.usgs.gov/
• United States Department of State
• Independent States in the World:
http://www.state.gov/s/inr/rls/4250.htm
• Dependencies and areas of special sovereignty http://www.state.gov/s/inr/rls/10543.htm Miscellaneous
• Country names
• In the German language (StAGN)
http://www.bkg.bund.de/kartographie/stagn/staatennamen.htm
• From the Institut Géographique National (IGN), France
http://www.ign.fr/telechargement/Pi/SERVICES/pcm.pdf
• Exonyms
• In the Dutch language (Nederlandse Taalunie): pronunciation being added http://taalunieversum.org/taal/aardrijkskundige_namen/
• In the German language (2nd ed. (StAGN))
http://www.bkg.bund.de/kartographie/stagn/Exonyme/f_Exonyme.htm
• Gazetteers
• Alexandria Digital Library project, University of California http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/
• Letters and languages database http://www.eki.ee/letter/
Contact
For updated information, consult the UNGEGN website:
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/
or contact the UNGEGN secretariat at United Nations Headquarters in New York:
UNGEGN secretariat
United Nations Statistics Division, Office of the Director Two UN Plaza, DC2-1640
New York, NY 10017 USA
Tel: 212 963 3042 Fax: 212 963 9851
E-mail: [email protected]