1. Gazetteer Application Makane Faye UN Economic Commission for Africa
GeoNyms
Gazetteer Application
Makane Faye
UN Economic Commission for Africa

2. GeoNyms Tool under development in UNECA/ISTD
To collect, validate, disseminate geographical(place) names (Toponyms)

3. Why GeoNyms? Provide African countries a free tool
Nationally approved (Correct) names
Makeup African SDI->UNGEGN Geographical Names DB
Use for Government Spatially Enabled Services and sectoral e-strategies

4. UNGEGN’s Interest
On the 24 th session a presentation was made by UNECA representative on EthioGaz and its features
 suggestion was made to develop a tool that can serve any country in need of such a tool.
ECA took the assignment

5. New GeoNyms Application
Designed around three core non-functional requirements (Ideas)
Increase usability and availability
Open source
Platform Independence
Architectural Interoperability

6. Open source No proprietor tools employed GPL : no payment of any sort
GeoNyms– Contd.
Open source
No proprietor tools employed
Development: Adobe Flex AIR/ActionScript 3.0
RDBMS: SQLite
GPL : no payment of any sort
Member states can extend it to cater for their special need
Note:
Responsible body to form user community and coordinate initiatives (UNECA with UNGEGN/UNSD) can take this responsibility

7. Platform Independence
GeoNyms– Contd.
Platform Independence
Runs on all known platforms
AIR applications built with Flex use the high-performance, cross-operating system virtual machine from Adobe Flash® Player software
Use proven, open technologies such as Tamarin, WebKit, and SQLite.

8. Architectural Compatibility
GeoNyms– Contd.
Architectural Compatibility
With African SDI names database
News Items , Application Settings ->Member States
Geographical Name records (Feature Data) -> Global DB.
Note here..

9. Demonstration

10. Welcome page

11. Feature Editor page

12. Feature – Location page

13. Feature - Note page

14. Feature – Audio/Visual

15. Feature - Metadata page

16. Map

17. Gazetteer

18. Than you.