Social and economic benefits:

• identifying reference points in laws, regulations, tourist information
  
  
• making easier government administration; industry and commerce; education and science
  
  
• providing a clear, unambiguous reference framework for linking to GIS world
  
  
• helping search and rescue, postal and transportation services

Technical and cultural benefits:

• history, heritage and oral tradition all benefit by name standardization as it removes ambiguities which names refer to which objects