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Drinking Dinosaur to help emergency responders
BBC via AOL· 1 month agoThe nicknames of landmarks around the UK are being used to help emergency workers pinpoint the location of incidents. A new tool developed by Ordnance Survey (OS) includes the colloquial names ...
New tool for emergency workers contains thousands of nicknames for UK locations
Press Association News via AOL· 1 month agoA new tool will allow emergency workers to pinpoint the location of incidents across the UK using...
‘Help! I’m at Teletubby Hill’: Ordnance Survey lets 999 workers add local nicknames to maps
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 1 month agoTelling someone you’ll meet them at the Eye of the Butt or Sausage Island might be an example of...
The British coastlines that are disappearing fastest
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoWill Self’s 2006 novel The Book of Dave – in which the author mashes up a contemporary comic novel with a science-fiction dystopia – contains a map...
Catherine the Great, Benjamin Franklin part of John Paul Jones’ story
FreightWaves via Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoThe second part of this account of Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones includes a dramatic...