The UN Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) is also relevant:
https://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/ungegn/default.html
They keep up a list of searchable geographical names databases in a wide
variety of languages:
https://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/ungegn/geonames.html
--Ken
On 3/2/2017 8:22 AM, Frédéric Grosshans wrote:
It looks like the community having the expertise to answer such
question is the GIS (Geography Information Systems) community, more
than the Unicode community. Have you tried asking a question on
http://gis.stackexchange.com/ ?
