Regional Training Program in Toponymy, including Marine Toponymy
Manila Philippines, 19-24 March 2018
Objectives
The objective of the Regional Training Program in Toponymy is to support capacity building for members of the UNGEGN Asia South East Division responsible for the standardization of geographical names. The course is aimed at increasing the knowledge and understanding of the principles and concepts of geographical naming and the standardization of a country’s toponyms with special emphasis on marine toponymy; transfer methods and best practices in geographical names data collection; toponymic database building, the design and development of gazetteers, geographical names servers, practices in cartographic applications and procedures in creating and managing a geographical names bureau.
The course is coordinated by the United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistics Division, UNGEGN working group on Training Courses in Toponymy, in collaboration with the National Mapping and Resource Information Authority of the Philippines (NAMRIA).
Documents
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/11Yml-gu0FlH8KXWuEtgpghvCR8VPjXusrfHK69mzGeE/edit
- Mr. Peter N. Tiangco, Chairman, Asia South-East Division
- Ms. Cecille Blake, UNGEGN Secretariat/UNSD
- Ms. Helen Kerfoot, Honorary Chair, UNGEGN
- Terminology and the webcourse
- Naming Principles
- Standardization of geographical names
- National agencies and functioning of a names board
- The role of place names in the preservation of Philippine cultural heritage
- Status of national standardization of geographical names in the Philippines
- Administration of geographical names in Sri Lanka
- Status of national geographical names standardization in Viet Nam
- United Nations, UNGEGN, and support for national geographical names standardization programmes
- The new UNGEGN
- Philippine languages and dialects
- Place names and history
- Fieldwork
- Preparing for fieldwork: what should we collect and what forms should we use
- GNSS receiver demonstration
- Field Exercise : 21 March 2018, Wednesday
- Update of the UNGEGN database of the Philippines
- Labelled maps - verification, entering names into a GIS and google maps/earth
- Sistem Akuisisi data Toponim Indonesia (SAKTI)
- Sistem Akuisisi data Toponim Indonesia (SAKTI)
- Name servers
- Canada : some thoughts on naming undersea features
- Marine names development in Southeast Asia
- Special aspects of marine naming
- Special aspects of underwater topography naming
- Naming objects beyond a single sovereignty
- Philippine nautical charting program
- Names positioning
- Exercise 1: Placing geographic names on the map of France
- Dissemination of geographical names
- Names dissemination
- Indonesia Standardization names
- Current status of the standardization of geographical names in Cambodia
- Standardization of geographical names in Laos
- ASE Division names database
- Toponymy and cultural heritage
- UNGEGN toponymy course module 19, toponymical planning