VICNAMES User Guide
VICNAMES assists naming authorities to register new or altered geographic naming proposals and record or find historical information.
This user guide details how you can use the VICNAMES website to search for, or upload, place names information and describes how you can participate in the naming process as per the Geographic Place Names Act 1998 and the supporting Guidelines for Geographic Names (October 2004).
Download the complete VICNAMES User Guide March 2008 below or select extracts by downloading the user notes which focus on commonly used functions of VICNAMES.
If you are having difficulty downloading the complete user guide or any of these documents please contact the Office of Geographic Names via email on geo.names@dse.vic.gov.au or call 03 8636 2525.
 |  VICNAMES User Guide March 2008 (PDF - 4.9 MB) |
User Notes
1: How to do a place names search (PDF - 1.1 MB) 2: Searching without a place name (PDF - 972 KB) 3: Duplicate road name search (PDF - 862 KB) 4: Searching for historical information (PDF - 814 KB) 5: Contribute historical information (PDF - 1.6 MB) 6: Add historical name to VICNAMES (PDF - 1.5 MB) 7: Historical content administrators (PDF - 1.4 MB) 8: Proposing a new place name (for naming authorities) (PDF - 2.4 MB)