The Times Atlas is recommended as a preferred source, where applicable. This includes names of places that have changed over time, variations of spellings, and translated names. Recording alternate names allows retrieval by more than one name for a given geographic location, e.g., Leghorn for Livorno . A set of numbers used to locate points on the earth's surface. Spatial coordinates can be used to record a location, in the absence of a proper place name.
Place names change and can be imprecise.
Further, there is no inherent correspondence between a name and a place. Spatial coordinates, on the other hand, provide an unchanging record of a given location. An explanatory text concerning any aspect of a geographic place to which the cataloguer needs to draw attention. This note can be used to qualify any information about a place, including its historic names. The name Toscana derives from the early inhabitants, the Etruscans, who settled here ca.