Evaluation of geographical potential of the Warmia and Mazury Province based on the National Register of Geographical Names using geoinformation tools

Abstract

The Geodetic and Cartographic Documentation Centre (CODGiK) provides data from the State Register of Geographical Names (PRNG). This register is constantly updated. On January 18, 2016 it contained 396 236 names that describe the objects located in the entire country, including 19589 names which concerned objects located in Warmia and Mazury. In the PRNG the names are classified into thematic classes; each class contains types and statuses of objects. Each name have coordinates assigned to it which locate it in space in the PUWG 1992 coordinate system. The aim of the study was to evaluate the geographical potential of Warmia and Mazury using the PRNG data. The analysed area is commonly known as the land of a thousand lakes. It was assumed that the analysis of data from the register will allow to define other valuable geographical features. The study was performed based on statistical analyses of the data. Results were presented in the tabular form; they describe the parameters of subsets of the database. Geostatistical presentations were also developed which present the distribution density of selected objects in the adopted thematic subsets. Apart from presentation the Warmia and Mazury Province as area of the high number of water reservoirs, the results of works point to other, less known values and to their locations.