This repository contains a web-based copy of Australian Place Naming Principles document, that defines and describes the principles by which Geographical Names should be given in Australia, published under the authority of the Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying & Mapping.
This repository contains the source code in ASCIIDOC files and replicates the content of the official document in a web-friendly format. An online rendering is available at: https://icsm-au.github.io/gn-principles/doc.html
We encourage contributions to this repository and the principles!
Please contribute by:
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Raising concerns/ideas with ICSM’s Place Names Working Group via icsm@ga.gov.au
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Creating Issue tickets within this repository’s Issue Tracker
The information in this repository is available for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, see the LICENSE file for the deed.
© Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping, 2026
For more information about this repository, contact:
Queensland Place Names team
Spatial Information Branch, Georesources Division
Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Manufacturing and Regional and Rural Development (NRMMRRD)
QldPlaceNames@nrmmrrd.qld.gov.au
For technical implementation and data model questions please contact:
Nicholas Car
KurrawongAI
nick@kurrawong.ai
Contractor to NRMMRRD’s Spatial Information group.
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, 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/gn-principles/doc.html.