[Talk-GB] Loch Lomond National Park sorry for 'Giro Bay' map

[Craig Loftus]

> (Hopefully not any OSM contributors or anyone at the O.S., anyway...)

Really, that doesn't seem fair? Some of us already have numerous
features all over Scotland named after us.

More seriously, I often wonder when it stopped being acceptable to
just name places? For each place name in OS, did they canvas locals,
or just ask a guy in the pub what he called that hillock just past the
windmill? Is it more appropriate in 'less mapped' countries for
mappers to add their names to places?

If we take the 'gold standard' of mapping to be done by a (hyper)
local mapper, and up until some point in time it was the locals who
gave names to places, if the mapper has a name for a place why not add
it?

(I'm sure I'm covering old pub meet-up conversations here, but I
couldn't resist)

Craig

On 10 March 2011 13:09, Phil Endecott <spam_from_osmgb at chezphil.org> wrote:
> Ed Avis wrote:
>>
>> These maps will probably become collector's items:
>> <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-12684156>
>
> What struck me was this quote:
>
>  "She also confirmed that some previously unnamed parts of the
>  loch had been named after cartographers and rangers who had
>  worked together on the mapping project.
>
>  "The spokeswoman explained names given after people was a
>  common map-making tradition"
>
>
> Err... it is?  OK, maybe in the 19th century if you were Robert Fitzroy in
> Patagonia, but I don't imagine any cartographer today is just making up
> names!  (Hopefully not any OSM contributors or anyone at the O.S.,
> anyway...)
>
>
> Phil
>
>
>
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