S14: Toponymical Guidelines
 
 

2. the scope - E) Source materials

 

 

  • Which documents – in the form of maps and gazetteers - are available to check the correct, standardized, official form of any geographical name?

  • In the Austrian guidelines, the Austria Map 1:50,000 and the Gazetteer of Austria already referred to are reiterated. An additional official gazetteer, the regularly updated Ortsverzeichnis 1971, is mentioned as being exhaustive for the names of inhabited places.


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