Australian Place Naming Principles - Readme for Code Repository

This document defines and described the principles by which Geographical Names should be given in Australia under the authority of the Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying & Mapping.

These draft principles will be dependent on the Geographical Names Model when it’s approved, much like the Addressing Creation & Maintenance Standard is dependent on the Address Model.

This repository contains the source code for the document in ASCIIDOC files which is temporarily rendered online at: https://icsm-au.github.io/gn-principles/doc.html

The future intent is to register a PID with the AGLDWG which resolves to the principles.

Contributions

We encourage contributions to this repository and the principles!

Please contribute by:

1. Raising concerns/ideas within ICSM’s Place Names Working Group

2. Creating Issue tickets within this repository’s Issue Tracker

   1. at https://github.com/icsm-au/gn-principles/issues

3. Creating Pull Requests to absorb changes against the document source files

   1. the source files are in the document/ folder of this repository

   2. Pull Requests should be lodged at https://github.com/icsm-au/gn-principles/pulls

If creating Pull Requests is a new/unknown thing for you, please communicate with the contacts below for help.

Rights and License

The information in this repository is available for reuse under the Creative Commons 4.0 license, see the LICENSE file for the deed.

© Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping, 2025

Contacts

For more information about this repository, contact:

Spatial Information
Georesources Division
Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Manufacturing and Regional and Rural Development
Queensland Government
[email protected]

For technical model implementation questions, contact:

Nicholas Car
KurrawongAI
[email protected]
Contractor to Spatial Information Qld.

Document Generation

This document is developed using the ASCIIDOC document system used for many OGC and ISO standards. It essentially builds HTML or PDF documents from a series of text files (ending in .adoc), images and so, with certain styling conventions.

This repository automatically builds this document from the source files in the document/ folder using the ASCIIDoctor tool that it integrated into a GitHub Action, meaning the document is rebuild with every error-free update to the source files here.

The auto-built document is online at https://icsm-au.github.io/addr-principles/doc.html.