Have you ever wondered which are the common parts of place names and how they are distributed across the country? It is something fascinating to explore.
Type in a place name or part of a place name, like ham, ford or ton and see how that name is distributed across placenames on a map of Britain using this fascinating linguistic mapping tool released by the National Library of Scotland based on a dataset compiled by own own Geography Department, among others.
The British Cartographic Society has made membership FREE for full-time students in Higher Education. You can now sign up simply but demonstrating you have a student email address. You don’t have to be a cartographer: the society is open to anyone with a love of maps.
On a hot day towards the end of June I was excited to be able to visit Dennis Maps, the largest printer of paper map products in the United Kingdom. The company produces more than two million maps and charts …
An earlier posting (Maps have been lying to you) showed the effect that the Mercator map projection has on the way we perceive the world. The challenge of portraying on a flat surface the essentially spherical shape of our planet …
All maps (necessarily) lie to you. It is impossible to unwrap the surface of the near-spherical Earth and lay it out as a flat sheet, and so cartographers (map makers) have to decide what features they wish to accurately preserve and then then …
This week’s book of the week is Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture. You can find it in the Large book section which is at the end of the book sequence in Zone 2B of the University Library. It …
