National Names Authorities
Documents
- Summary world map of Authorities, as of November 2012 (2MB)
- Summary List of Authorities, as of September 2012
- Links by countries to National Names Authorities and other related websites
Useful reference documents (examples from national names authorities)
Overview - names authorities and procedures for naming
Legislation for a names authority
- Canada, Order in Council - Canada, Décret en conseil
- New Zealand Geographic Board (Nga Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa) Act, 2008
- Tunisie, Décret du 2013 - Arabic version
Policies, principles and procedures for geographical naming
- Canada, Principles and procedures - Canada, Principes et directives
- Indonesia, Principles, Policies and Procedures
Place names acts
Information publicizing the work of names authorities
Annual reports of names authorities
Forms for public submission of names
- Denmark names collection form: blank form (English translation) - Denmark names collection form: completed form (in Danish)
- New Zealand places and features
- New Zealand guiding notes for places and features
- New Zealand undersea features
- New Zealand guiding notes for undersea features
Presentations (National Names Authorities)
Meeting of toponymy authorities, 6 September 2011, at ICOS XIV, Barcelona, Spain
- Welcome (Yvonne Griley)
- Introduction ( Helen Kerfoot)
- National committees - centralized
- Estonia (Peeter Päll)
- Republic of Korea (Sungjae Choo)
- National/regional committees
- Input of language specialists
- Norway (Botolv Helleland)
- Country without a geographical names authority
- Netherlands (Ferjan Ormeling)
- Concluding remarks ( Helen Kerfoot)
- Words of thanks (Yvonne Griley)
Short UNGEGN lunch-time presentation, GGIM High Level Forum, Seoul, October 24-26, 2011
- UNGEGN - what, why, how and relevance to GGIM
- Le GENUNG et la normalisation des noms géographiques en Afrique
- UNGEGN Geographical Names Database
- UNGEGN - names and mapping / GIS
- UNGEGN - cultural connections
- EuroGeoNames - data network
- UNGEGN - national names authorities and GGIM
- UNGEGN - example of a national names authority
- UNGEGN - other administrative approaches for geographical names
