GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES STANDARDIZATION IN LATVIA Activities since the 9 th Meeting of the Baltic Division of UNGEGN

th meeting of the Baltic Division of UNGEGN Reorganization - 1 st of January, 2006 State Land Service FORMER State Land Service (SLS) Latvian Geospatial Information Agency (LGIA) Addresses, Cadastre, Land Survey Cartography, Geodesy, GIS

th meeting of the Baltic Division of UNGEGN State Mapping Projects COVER MAINLY THE TERRITORY OF LATVIA Topographic Map scale 1: sheets of 131 are published toponymy is being compiled by Laboratory of Toponymy Topographic Map scale 1: sheets of 2557 are published toponymy is being checked by Laboratory of Toponymy

th meeting of the Baltic Division of UNGEGN State Mapping Projects COVER MAINLY THE TERRITORY OF LATVIA Satellite Map scale 1: updated version 62 sheets of 131 are published Toponymy,originally compiled by the Laboratory of Toponymy (in 1994 to1998), is slightly updated

th meeting of the Baltic Division of UNGEGN Private Mapping COVERS THE TERRITORY OF LATVIA AND OTHER COUNTRIES SIA “Karšu izdevniecība Jāņa sēta“ (Map Publishing Company “Jāņa Sēta”) School maps and atlases Road maps Regional and tourist maps Other mapping projects

th meeting of the Baltic Division of UNGEGN Geogaphical Names Data Bases GNDB of Latvia names for features MS SQL Server, MS Access VdbNet (Public Version for the Intranet) for cartographers, editors

th meeting of the Baltic Division of UNGEGN Geogaphical Names Data Base of Latvia Updating and revision of the information Expanding the information Main source – data from the Topographic Map M1: Main sources – data from fieldwork and excerped from literature

th meeting of the Baltic Division of UNGEGN Significant toponymic data repositories besides the GNDB Card File of the Institute of Latvian Language (not computerized, more than 1 million entries) State Register of Addresses (officially approved identifiers for use in addresation) Latvian and foreign geographical names data base of Map Publishing Company “Jāņa Sēta” State Real Estate Register (names of real estates) State classifiers, such as Classifier of administrative and territorial units, classifiers for water management

th meeting of the Baltic Division of UNGEGN Gazetteers of Geographical Names Concise Gazetteer of the Republic of Latvia, scale 1: (2003) The Bulletin of Changes ( ) Full updated version ( ) – on the website of the LGIA

th meeting of the Baltic Division of UNGEGN Dictionaries of Geographical Names Local dictionaries (1: to 1:10 000) Cover particular administrative or territorial unit Cartographic supplements Rich in information concerning the names and named features; as well as geography, history and culture of the territory.

th meeting of the Baltic Division of UNGEGN Dictionaries of Geographical Names “Zaubes pagasts.Vietas un vārdi” in collaboration of SLS with the local government, 2005, 239 pages approximately 300 named features 700 illustrations (photo of each farmstead etc.) presentation of the book – significant event for the local people

th meeting of the Baltic Division of UNGEGN Country names, exonyms The List of Country Names in Latvian updated in 2006 by the Sub-commision of Geographical Names of Latvian Language Commision, State Language centre published in the official newspaper “Latvijas Vēstnesis”

th meeting of the Baltic Division of UNGEGN Normative Documents Draft of the Place Names Law is prepared by the Sub-commision of Geographical Names of Latvian Language Commision, State Language centre The Law will regulate the establishing and use of official geographical names maintenance of geographical names information, preservation of place names heritage (including valuable exonyms)

th meeting of the Baltic Division of UNGEGN Normative Documents Maintenance of Geographical Names Database by the LGIA is officially stated by the Government Items concerning geographical names standardization are elaborated in strategic planning documentation of LGIA Chapter regarding geographical names standardization is elaborated in Concept of Development of Cartography of Latvia

th meeting of the Baltic Division of UNGEGN Questions???

th meeting of the Baltic Division of UNGEGN Thank you for your attention!