DBTR2008 — Place name (written map) — (TOP_GPG)

Toponyms, understood as the proper name of a place or object present in the geographical space, represent an essential territorial reading key, useful both to orient themselves in a “mote” geographical space (e.g. orthophotos, vector data “undressed”) and to locate themselves directly near the toponym itself (positioning on raster images or on the mute geographical space, or around an object of the DBT qualified by the chosen name).The place names are classified according to the type of object whose name they specify, but not all types of place names have a corresponding class defined in the Topographic Base Data, e.g. the name of parts of the mountain territory; conversely in other cases there are objects in the Data Base (e.g. natural watercourses, canals, roads, etc.) that include among their attributes the name given on the cartography as a placename.The position of the place names is actually functional to the reading of an elaborate cartographic and therefore dependent on the scale of representation.