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LINKS TO WEB SITES RELEVANT TO GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES STANDARDIZATION

United Nations - Statistics Division: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/
Working Group on Publicity and Funding: UNGEGN brochure http://www.vicnames.vic.gov.au
Working Group on Toponymic Training Courses http://toponymycourses.geog.uu.nl/
East Central and Southeast Europe Division's web site http://www.sigov.sl/kszi/
Standardization of geographical names in Slovenia and the Slovene Commission for standardization of geographical names http://www.sigov.sl/kszi/

Ordnance Survey (OS) .. Great Britain

Ordnance Survey geo-referenced street dataset called National Street Gazetteer (NSG)

http://www.ordsvy.gov.uk

http://www.nsg.org.uk

Estonian Translation and Legislative Support Centre ….translation of Estonian law on place names (Place names act 1996) http://www.legaltext.ee/

The Research Institute for the Languages of Finland … information on European Heritage Days

Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Ministry of Environment

Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities

National Board of Education

National Board of Antiquities

http://www.domlang.fi/huolto/!erp-eng.htm

http://www.domlang.fi

http://www.vyh.fi

http://kuntaliitto.fi

http://www.oph.fi

http://www.nba.fi

Baltic Division Estonian Road Atlas 1999 (AS Regio); index of place names http://atlas.regio.ee
Jana seta Map Publishers, Riga, Latvia http://www.kartes.lv

Canadian Geographical Names web site English:

Canadian Geographical Names web site French:

Canadian Geographical Names Data Base … as above British Columbia - BC Geographical Names Information System

Northwest Territories - NWT Geographic Names

Quebec - TOPOS sur le Web

http://geonames.NRCan.gc.ca

http://toponymes.RNCan.gc.ca

http://www.gdbc.gov.bc.ca/bcnames

http://pwnhc.learnnet.nt.ca/programs/geodb.htm

http://www.toponymie.gouv.qc.ca/default.asp

Canadian Geographical Names Data Base … undersea feature names http://geonames.NRCan.gc.ca
Commission de toponymie du Québec, Canada http://www.toponymie.gouv.qc.ca
Le site Web provisoire de la Division francophone du Group d'experts http://www/toponymie.gouv.qc.ca/divfranco.htm
Working Group on Romanization Systems Web site available in Spring 2000: http://www.eki.ee/wrgs/
Finland …. Nordic Place Names (some 2000 place names stored in UNICODE, including Saami-language characters http://WWW.NONDB.NLS.FI
United States of America …Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/gnis
Letter Database (displays languages, their special characters and Unicode codes together with images of the letter) … at the Institution of Estonian Language http://www.eki.ee/letter/
Alexandria Digital Library Project at the University of California: two-day Digital Gazetteer Information Exchange Workshop at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, October, 1999 http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/˜lhill/dgie/DGIE_agenda5.html
Toponymic Guidelines for Map and Other Editors … Slovakia http://www.geodesy.gov.sk/sgn/typonym/Slov/typoframe.htm
29th International Geographical Congress, August 2000, Seoul, Republic of Korea (IGC2000) http://www.geog.snu.ac.kr/
Dutch- and German-speaking Division List of selected exonyms in the German language (originally published in 1993), now updated to second edition http://www.ifag.de/kartographie/stagn/exonymesliste.pdf
Ständiger Ausschuss für geographische Namen (StAGN) http://www.ifag.de/kartographie/stagn/stagn.htm
List of country names in the German language (February 1999) http://www.ifag.de/kartographie/stagn/staatennamen.htm
Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Composite Gazxetteer of Antarctica http://www.pnra.it/SCAR_GAZEv

UNGEGN documentation on the Canadian Geographical Names web site English :

UNGEGN documentation on the Canadian Geographical Names web site French :

http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/english/unindex.html

http://toponymes.rncan.gc.ca/francais/unindex.html

La division francophone - site web provisoire http://www.toponymie.gouv.qc.ca/divfranco.htm
  http://www.francophonie.org/oif/actions/pdf/Resolutions.pdf
  http://www.francophonie.org/oif/actions/pdf/Rapport-SG-ONU-OIF.pdf
Toponymic Guidelines : Norway Shortly to be included on http://www.statkart.no/virksomh/forvaltning/navnlov/
For web sites noted in documents of the Seventh United Nations Conference on the Standardization on Geographical Names, January 1998, and submitted in CRP 40, see the Canadian Geographical Names web site : http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/english/unwebsites.html
For summary list of Toponymic Guidelines prepared, see Canadian Geographical Names web site : http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/english/newsletter_17.html


Contact:
UNGEGN Secretariat,
New York
Amor Laaribi
laaribi@un.org

UNGEGN Divisions

Baltic Division
http://www.eki.ee/knn/ungegn/index.htm
Dutch- and German-speaking Division

Ständiger Ausschuss für geographische Namen (StAGN)
http://www.ifag.de/kartographie/stagn/stagn.htm

East Central and South-East Europe Division
http://www.sigov.si/kszi

French-speaking Division
http://www.toponymie.gouv.qc.ca/divfranco.htm