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26th Session of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names
2 - 6 May 2011, Vienna, Austria
- Note Verbale
- About the venue
- Opening ceremony
- Special presentations
- Side events
- Essay and poem contest for Africa
- Press releases
- Exhibition posters
- Photo gallery
- Welcome Statement of Ms. Mazlan Othman, Deputy Director-General of the United Nations office at Vienna
- Opening statement of Mr. Stefan Schweinfest, Assistant Director, UN Statistics Division, DESA
- GGIM Initiative, by Stefan Schweinfest, UNSD
- Unicode Transliteration, by Mark Davis, President & Co-founder, Unicode Consortium
- ICANN Update, by Patrick Jones and Naela Sarras
- ICIPN presentation, by Carl Christian Olsen and Kaisa Rautio Helander
- OICT presentation on UN Spatial Data Infrastructure (UNSDI) - Gazetteer Framework Project, by Suha Ulgen
- Google Earth, by Crystal Sholts
- Geographical names and disaster management, by Bill Watt
Contest details
Contest winners
- UNGEGN no. 1
- UNGEGN no. 2
- Austria (not available electronically yet)
- Canada: Cartography and Toponymy
- Canada: Canadian Geographical Names Service (CGNS)
- Egypt: UNGEGN Database
- Egypt: CAPMAS
- Egypt CAPMAS: GIS Applications
- Finland poster no. 1: The birth of place names - talking about places (in Finnish)
- Finland poster no. 2: From one language to another (in Finnish)
- Finland poster no. 3: Storing the name of a field (in Finnish)
- Finland poster no. 4: Archived names (in Finnish)
- Finland poster no. 5: Names in multiple languages (in Finnish)
- Finland poster no. 6: The right name in the right place, Checking the names on the Basic Map (in Finnish)
- Finland poster no. 7: Planned names – Kruununhaka in Helsinki (in Finnish)
- Finland poster no. 8: Names in town plans – ”Keimola Hill” (in Finnish)
- Finland: Handout (in English)
- Finland: Updated version of these posters in English are available at http://www.kotus.fi/index.phtml?l=en&s=3763
- Latvia poster no. 1 (not available electronically)
- Latvia poster no. 2 (not available electronically)
- Madagascar (not available electronically)
- Tunisia: UNGEGN Training session
- UNGEGN Chair poster no. 1: Toponymy Training Courses
- UNGEGN Chair poster no. 2: (not available electronically yet)
- UNGEGN Chair poster no. 3: (not available electronically yet)
- UNGEGN Chair poster no. 4: (not available electronically yet)