Atlas editors take into account the need for minimising variety in names worldwide, and therefore they would adhere to a local names policy that infers that the official name used locally should be the name version to be incorporated in the maps. In this way name standardisation is stimulated. So if name changes occur because of changes in the official language of an area, these usually are applied as soon as possible.

On the other hand, atlas editors are aware of the fact that some resistance to name changes exists from their customers, that is geography teachers, who have been used to refer to geographical objects with specific names.