10^th Conference

Demonstration of New Gazetteers/Databases (31 July, 13:00 - 14:45)

• Gazetteer for New Zealand, by Wendy Shaw, Secretary, New Zealand Geographic Board and Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa




Demonstration of new gazetteers/databases (Part2): New Trends for the EuroGeoNames Infrastructure (2 August, 18:15 – 18:45)

• New trends for the EuroGeoNames infrastructure implementation, by Pier-Giorgio Zaccheddu (BKG, Germany) & Saulius Urbanas (EuroGeographics)




Names boards – dealing with VGI, crowd-sourcing, web harvesting (3 August, 14:00 – 14:45)

• VGI in Canada’s North, by Heather Ross, Toponymist, GNBC Secretariat




UNSDI Gazetteer Framework workshop (CSIRO) (8 August, 13:15 – 14:00)

• UNSDI Gazetteer Framework for Social Protection in Indonesia, by Paul Box & Laura Kostanski, CSIRO Australia