An interesting little find from Dan Raven Ellison, of the Passion for Geography Campaign. Basically a blue marble NASA map, with a light pollution overlay. But as you zoom in, you can click on a settlement and it links to a Wikipedia description. Sadly Ilkeston and Kirk Hallam aren’t shown on the map, but I learnt much about ‘My Place’ of Nottingham. Ilkeston does have a Wikipedia page, known as ‘the place that land forgot’, I also learnt that Ilkeston uses East Midlands Dialect; I never knew there was a classification for our take on the English Language, definitely not ‘rammel’. I wonder how your place differs from the description in Wikipedia, and the one for Kirk Hallam is waiting to be written. I feel a project coming on…
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Written on Sun, 26 November 2006 at 9:53 am
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