Toponymy Training Manual
- Introduction
- Section 1 General/strategic issues
- Chapter 1- Geographical names, their standardization, and their value as part of geospatial data infrastructures
- Chapter 2 - Toponymy web course
- Section 2 Management of a national names programme
- Chapter 3 - Maintaining and publishing the geographical names database in Germany
- Chapter 4 - Compilation and updating of the swisstopo geographic names database “swissNAMES3D”
- Section 3 Regional activities and different applications
- Chapter 5 - Names on nautical charts
- Chapter 6 - Geographical names for tourist maps
- Chapter 7 - Street name standardisation
- Section 4 Regional and global initiatives
- Chapter 8 - Building the New Zealand Gazetteer
- Chapter 9 - UNGEGN World Geographical Names Database
- Chapter 10 - Working with geonames.org
- Section 5 Progress of toponymic databases
- Chapter 11 - Standardization of Statistical Area Names
- Chapter 12 - Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI)
- Section 6 Technical issues: databases and pronunciation
- Chapter 13 - Technical issues: database management
- Chapter 14 - Building a database for names management and index production for atlases
- Chapter 15 - UNGEGN involvement in dealing with pronunciation aspects of geographical names
- Section 7 Technical issues: internet, web services infrastructure and applications
- Chapter 16 - Web services and applications – open source options vs commercial options: criteria for selection
- Chapter 17 - Visualizing geographical names databases
- Chapter 18 - still being prepared
- Chapter 19 - A data repository for named places and their standardized names integrated with the production of national map series
- Section 8 Websites
- Chapter 20 - Distribution of standardized names: accessibility on the internet
- Chapter 21 - Evaluation of current international toponymic databases
- Section 9 Cultural aspects
- Chapter 22 - Geographical names as cultural heritage
- Chapter 23 - Toponyms as carriers of cultural heritage: the history of place names
- Chapter 24 - still being prepared
- Chapter 25 - Place names and cultural heritage in an archipelagic country
- Section 10 Toponymic research and documentation
- Chapter 26 - Etymology and the historic study of geographical names
- Chapter 27 - Some aspects of cartographic and linguistic toponymic sources
- Section 11 Cartographic aspects
- Chapter 28 - Updating geographical names and assessing the optimal names density in Topomaps
- Chapter 29 - Dealing with areal names on adjoining map sheets; multiple naming
- Section 12 Auditing place name records
- Section 13 Media training
