What's in a Name?

摘要

In the era of readily available identification of position through the medium of mobile GPS receivers, we are becoming used to WGS84 coordinates. However, the name of a place is still the most widely used reference for specifying location. Further, the names are a reflection of cognition, culture and history. The production of gazetteers is an important role for many spatial data collectors, and the representation of place names accurately and effectively is the role of the cartographer.