• Every country having some form of authority for geographical names
  
  
• Standardized ("authorized") forms of names nationally recognized and used
  
  
• All authorized names easily available and accessible for international use
  
  
• All languages/writing systems having a standardized conversion to Roman orthography
  
  

Some areas of common interest

• Field collection of locally used names (resolving questions of recording and writing)
  
  
• Names authorities and standardization processes
  
  
• Disseminating data - gazetteers, digital files, data transfer standards, world wide web ...
  
  
• Developing national toponymic guidelines for international cartographic use
  
  
• Conventional names and exonyms

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Selfstudy
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Contents
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Intro
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1.Background
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2.Role of UNGEGN
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3.Major
goals - dreams
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4.How the systems functions
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5.Conferences
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6.Sessions
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7.Divisions
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8.Working groups
(a/b/c/d/e
f/g/h/i/j)
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9.Toponymic Guidelines
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10.UNGEGN website
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11.UNGEGN Geonames database