Something to amuse..

[magmo]

While it is windy and wet we are not getting out so much so I have thought of somthing to keep your minds active.

I am doing a mapping project at work using the OS maps API. The map has to start somewhere. i.e. have a default location before a search can start.

We look at maps a lot planning explores and all of us have seen a feature that looks funny or a place with a funny name. Have a think and the best one will be used in the project, well untill it is spotted...

Here is the one that made me think of the idea.

I look forward to seeing the winner.....

 

[nelly]

Ha!!!, It took me a good minute of searching till I found it!!!!

Wow, I've been called one a few times, but to live there, that would be something else!!!

 

[highcannons]

Theres a Fentongimps in Cornwall!

While it is windy and wet we are not getting out so much so I have thought of somthing to keep your minds active.

I am doing a mapping project at work using the OS maps API. The map has to start somewhere. i.e. have a default location before a search can start.

We look at maps a lot planning explores and all of us have seen a feature that looks funny or a place with a funny name. Have a think and the best one will be used in the project, well untill it is spotted...

Here is the one that made me think of the idea.

I look forward to seeing the winner.....

 

[klempner69]

Also a Ventongimps too

 

[highcannons]

Doh! thats what I meant.

 

[krela]

That particular example has the double whammy of the image itself looking remarkably like a bridled horses head too!

 

[lost]

What's so funny about Norse?

 

[King Al]

Good fun:

http://www.funnynames.com/funny_names_for_places/page/1

 

[magmo]

Also a Ventongimps too

I wanted to see where ventongims was and typed it in to one of my map prototypes here http://www.puffinpost.com/os/repeaters.html

Type it into the seach bar at the top and look at the name of the place in the top left corner near the + on the zoom bar... Ha... Ha..

I have found a new use for my map if you type in somthing in the search bar it will list all places similar, try bottom...

A few I found.

***** hill
Bell end
sillyhole
sillywinny wood

I think I will make a master map with them all on, keep them comming...

mo

 

[Foxylady]

...if you type in somthing in the search bar it will list all places similar, try bottom...

Piddle's a good name for the search. For Trekkers, there's a village near Axminster called Trill.

 

[night crawler]

Ha!!!, It took me a good minute of searching till I found it!!!!

Wow, I've been called one a few times, but to live there, that would be something else!!!

That long , first name I saw. Seems to be a lot of Head round the place as well.

 

[oldscrote]

this has always brought a smile to my face

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?...+of+Marden+Cowbag,+Wiltshire+&searchp=ids.srf

 

[RichardB]

Shetland and Orkney have a lot of the same place names and Twatt is one of them. I went to the Shetland Twatt on Friday but it isn't much more than a farm and doesn't have a sign.

 

[krela]

So am I right in thinking the O/S now have to make all their mapping information available to application developers for free?

That could have some very interesting / useful applications, particularly in mapping WW2 relics if you tied in with cptpies database etc.

 

[night crawler]

50,000 scale is I don't think the 25,0000 scale is free but certanly worth thinking about.

 

[muppet]

there is a cocks just up the road from me always brings a smile to my face

 

[scribble]

There's a Land of Nod in East Yorkshire.
I knew someone from Kent who, visiting Derbyshire was struck by the expletive placenames eg Crich! and Holymoorside!

 

[stevejd]

how about this one
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=375125&Y=406345&A=Y&Z=120

 

[HypoBoy]

I wouldn't want to live here.

 

[stevejd]

Here's a few someone else found in google maps