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Exonyms and other geographical names
Acta Geographica Slovenica, 2017 Geographical names are proper names of geographical features. They are characterized by different meanings, contexts, and history. Local names of geographical features (endonyms) may differ from the foreign names (exonyms) for the same feature.
Drago Perko, Peter Jordan, Blaž Komac
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Landscape Analysis of Geographical Names in Hubei Province, China
Entropy, 2014 Hubei Province is the hub of communications in central China, which directly determines its strategic position in the country’s development. Additionally, Hubei Province is well-known for its diverse landforms, including mountains, hills, mounds and ...
Xixi Chen +5 more
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Transliteration of Indonesian Geographical Names into Chinese
Humaniora, 2022 In this paper, a comparative analysis of the phonetics between Indonesian and Chinese in the geographical name conversion process is carried out to investigate the way of Chinese transliterating for Indonesian geographical names, in order to standardize ...
Qin Weifen, Wang Difei
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DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF DYNAMIC UPDATE SYSTEM FOR GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES AND ADDRESSES [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2018 In order to solve the problem of the long update cycle of geographical names and addresses, this paper puts forward a dynamic update technique of mobile & PC integration.
Y. Liu, W. Sun, C. Li, X. Liu, C. Fang
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RESEARCH ON THE METHOD OF USING MULTI-SOURCE DATA TO EVALUATE THE QUALITY OF GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2022 Based on the epidemic situation in recent years, it has become an urgent need to study how to use many open-source or existed geographical names to evaluate the quality of newly produced geographical names.
Y. Xu +5 more
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Acta Geographica Slovenica, 2020 This work discusses Slovenian geographical names: endonyms in Slovenia and in border areas inhabited by Slovenians in neighboring countries, and Slovenian exonyms used in Slovenian to describe geographical features outside the Slovenian settlement area ...
Drago Kladnik +2 more
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A Call for Papers for a Special Issue of NAMES
Names, 2021 The Vice President of the American Name Society, Dr. Luisa Caiazzo, is issuing a call for papers for a special issue of NAMES on the selection and meaning of toponyms in works of fiction.
Luisa Caiazzo
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THE IMPORTANT OF TOPONYM IN THE MIDDLE OF MAPS AND IMAGERY FOR DISASTER MANAGEMENT [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2012 Maps without toponym is blind maps, imagery without names in top of it is hard for us to understand for which location the imagery stand for. Place names should be verified and validated to maintain its unique, the consistency and accuracy also to ...
A. P. Perdana +2 more
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“Stars are Not for Sale” or the Legal Basis for Official Names of Natural and Anthropogenic Objects [PDF]
Advanced Space Law, 2018 The nomenclature of names of geographical and astronomical objects is clearly defined at the international and state level. The titles take into account the historical aspect that has been discovered from the research of literature and archival documents
Liliya Kazantseva
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