S12: UN Role
 
 

Table of contents

 

The content of this module is based on teaching materials by Ferjan Ormeling. These teaching materials are made available in the "documents" section.

The module contains the following chapters:

Introduction
Chapter 1: Background
Chapter 2: The role of UNGEGN is on of ...
Chapter 3: Some major goals / dreams
Chapter 4: How the system functions
Chapter 5: Conferences
Chapter 6: UNGEGN sessions
Chapter 7: UNGEGN divisions
Chapter 8: Working Groups (WGs: a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j)
Chapter 9: Toponymic Guidelines
Chapter 10: UNGEGN website
Chapter 11: UNGEGN Geonames database


When reading through the following pages, you will come across some uncommon terms. These terms are hyperlinked to the UNGEGN Glossary of Terminology (pdf). Behind each term a number (#) is given that corresponds to the numbering applied in this glossary, e.g. toponymy (#344).

For exercises and documents (and literature) on this topic see respectively the "Excercises" and/or the "Documents section of this module.

The complete module can be downloaded here.

 

 
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