Owen Massey McKnight ([info]addedentry) wrote,
2003-10-01 22:45:00
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Maps (wait, they don't love you like I love you)

There seemed to be no LiveJournal community devoted to maps. So I present [info]cartographica. Join!

Even if you don't, you can help by coming up with interests that will snag mapfans - the closer to unique, the better. Have a look at the userinfo for [info]linguists for an idea of the hardcore jargon I'm after.

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[info]kaet

October 1 2003, 18:56:38 UTC 8 years ago

Thinking around it a bit (some are some distance away, I guess, do pick and choose, this is just brainstorming of things that come immediately to mind):

GIS, terrain, surveying, theodolite, sounding, nautical mile, sextant, compass, buoy, navigation, landmark, northing, easting, national grid, GPS, GLONAST, magnetic north, tumulus, x marks the spot, grid reference, doomsday book, shires, counties, borders, four colour theorem, isthmus, island, circumnavigation, latitude, longitude, altitude, spacial, visualisation, fractal geometry, data representation, demarkation.

[info]addedentry

October 2 2003, 02:48:50 UTC 8 years ago

Westing (by Musket and Sextant)

Superlative! Thank you, I've added nearly all of those; except 'isthmus', because I wasn't sure what the plural might be.

I hope New Agers won't be disappointed when they search for 'meridians'.

[info]pseudomonas

October 2 2003, 02:55:57 UTC 8 years ago

I think it ought to be isthmœ. Chambers(1983) doesn't list a plural, and my OED is in London.

[info]ericklendl

October 2 2003, 08:57:16 UTC 8 years ago

Isthmuses and isthmi are both valid for Scrabble, but isthmi is only in the American source, isthmuses is in both. I'd go for isthmuses.

[info]pseudomonas

October 2 2003, 14:35:00 UTC 8 years ago

Isthmuses I have no quarrel with. Isthmi is like hippopotami (I think it probably ought to be hippapotamœ, although I admit that current usage does not support me);

[info]pseudomonas

October 2 2003, 03:15:21 UTC 8 years ago

Can you put fjord in there? (Or fiord, cos there's no Unicode standard ligature for "fj")

[info]addedentry

October 2 2003, 07:34:38 UTC 8 years ago

Are you thinking Slartibartfast?

[info]pseudomonas

October 2 2003, 08:19:51 UTC 8 years ago

Possibly subconsciously.
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