This specification describes how to model geographical names, i.e. proper nouns applied to a natural, man-made or cultural feature

on Earth. Because of the multi-language and multi-scriptual context, this specification defines a product that is feature oriented in order to enable

to express which different names are used to designate one given place. In other words, the spatial objects defined in this specification are the

‘named places’, and the ‘geographical names’ are seen as information related to a named place. However, the product focuses on the description of

names rather than the description of spatial objects: it particularly describes characteristics of names like their language and spellings in

different scripts.