Forests play a key role in the rural area landscape. One of the types of information which determines their social function are local names (geographical names, toponyms). The research was focused on forest toponyms the names of forest areas and objects related to forest management. The aim was to choose several sets of spatial data (topographic maps, tourist maps, forest maps and the State Register of Geographical Names) and then to compare them in terms of the number of forest toponyms they contain. The study area covers three forest districts (Daleszyce, Write, Tuchola) located in different parts of Poland. In total, more than 120 toponyms were found, which were divided into 8 categories. It was found that the compared sets of data are diverse both in terms of the number and categories of presented forest toponyms. Generally, good tourist maps, despite their smaller scale, include a slightly larger number of such names than modern topographical maps.

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