General

• UNGEGN | United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names

Introduction

• Glossary of Terms for the Standardization of Geographical Names (New York 2002) / pdf
• Manual for the national standardization of geographical names (New York, 2006) / pdf
• Technical reference manual for the standardization of geographical names (New York, 2007) / pdf
• Resolutions adopted at the nine UN Conferences on the standardization of geographical names(English (pdf) / French (pdf)

Naming process

• Product naming
• Tropical Cyclone Naming History and Retired Names
• Ship naming in the US Navy

Functions of Geo. names

• Wikipedia: Place name origins

National Agencies

• U.S.Board on Geographic names
• UNGEGN: Manual for the national standardization of geographical names

Field collection systems

• Mittermaier, R. (2006). Austrian Names Database (Geonam). Vienna 2006 (on DGSD website)
• Type IPA phonetic symbols
• Wikipedia: International Phonetic Alphabet

reference systems

• Knippers, R. (2009). Geometric aspects of mapping
• Concepts of geographical referencing systems / by Graduate School of Design, Harvard University)
• Explore the challenges: Measure Latitude and Longitude / by Rough Sciences, PBS.

Minority groups

• Watt, W. (2007). Report of the UNGEGN Working Group on the Promotion of Indigenous and Minority Group Place Names WP 42, (New York, 2007) / pdf

Languages

• SIL International
• Wikipedia: Language

Writing systems

• Wikipedia: Writing systems

Conversion systems

• UNGEGN - Working Group on Romanization systems
• US Board on geographical Names Romanization systems

UN ROle

• UN Documents on the standardization of geographical names / pdf
• List of country names and associated practical information on UN website (Cartographic sections) / pdf

Exonyms

• Report of the Working Group on Exonyms (Vienna, 2011)
• Towards a comprehensive view at the endonym/exonym divide(New York, 2012)

toponymical Guidelines

• UNGEGN - National Names authorities by country
• Hungarian toponymic guidelines (3rd edition, 2002)

Toponymical data files

• EuroGeoNames
• EuroGeoNames Reference Application
• UNGEGN Database
• GeoNym (African gazetteer application)
• Asia South East Pacific South West Division gazetteer
• Geonames.org
• Gazetteer of Australia Place Name Search

Names placement

• Wikipedia: Automatic label placement
  
• Automatic cartographic text placement

Legal status of names

• Norwegian Place Name Act of 1990 (pdf)