Community Level Old Place Names in the Northeast of Thailand for a Historical Digital Gazetteer

To identify locations of old place names is important to studies on community history. However, as place names are not always stable for long, information on relationship between old place name and its corresponding current place name is indispensable. Present-day place names in digital form are readily utilized in various information services. But, practical cases of integration of old place names precisely in a wide region in digital form are not much ready. The major target of this article is community level place names in past one century in the Northeast of Thailand. Current achievement of linking place names between different age, and further tasks to improve the content of a digital gazetteer is described.