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Geographic Name Character Set (GCS)

DGIF baseline 2026-1, the latest. Earlier baselines: timemap.

RDF: gcs.ttl

Name

geoNameCharacterSet

Datatype

Enumeration

Definition

The character set used for the display of characters with diacritics and special characters in a geographic name.

Description

Individual character sets include diacritics and special characters from multiple languages in the same geographic region.

Accepted

2013-10-18

Defined by

NFDD

Values

• GCS_1 Region 1
• GCS_2 Region 2
• GCS_3 Region 3
• GCS_4 Region 4
• GCS_5 Region 5
• GCS_6 Region 6

Used by

• ZI005 Geographic Name Information

Source: DGIF 2026-1 QEA model, DGIWG. Standard: DGIWG 206-3. Licence: CC BY 4.0, © DGIWG.