Volume 1 would follow the same format as Edition 1. Units to be metric, with height in metres, distances in kilometres and areas in square kilometres. Co-ordinate accuracy should be appropriate to the size of the feature and the quality of the maps used to define the name. It should not be forgotten, in any case, that co-ordinates are provided for searching purposes only. Field separation .
All new data have to be put into to a database.
Length of the description Accepting descriptions in their current form from the different nations would have serious implications for the final size of the CGA database and the hard copy publication that is being considered. Actually many of the existing descriptions in national gazetteers are well over the character limit set above and their inclusion would add many pages to a volume that is already likely to be about 1600 pages in total. The present situation is that in the CGA dataset there are 2000 descriptions that have more than 400 characters total. We have to limit the size of the next, and possibly future, editions of the CGA to a reasonable size. To accomplish that, all those descriptions longer than the character length stated above will be excluded, until the entries have been reduced by the country that had submitted the description.