dgplacenames (now in Orkney)

Completely understand. Polygon tool is totally fine - just need to get over my desire for neatness. Viewer is here: maps.cmackenzie.net/index.html
Not added any transcriptions yet (and can't actually remember if the functionality is there or waiting to be pushed to github)

Thanks! I've been able (after a lot of trial and error) to match up the pixel coordinates from recogito studio to the allmaps warped layer and host both in a viewer. Liiive looks great.
Any chance we could get tilted rectangle (like on recogito.pelagios) in studio or liiive? It's really handy

Yellow background with black and white photo of kangaroo Text: Look again... make sure you're eligible before claiming work expenses

Thought this FB post from HMRC was the cover of a programming language textbook

@aboutgeo.bsky.social I've been georeferencing maps using Allmaps. Would like to transcribe the text on the unwarped IIIF images then link the two. Have been using recogito studio for the transcription but wanted to check if that's the best way to go about it, or if there's some other iiif solution

Need to publish images as #IIIF — but have only 30 SECONDS to do it? tiny.iiif to the rescue! 🫨

• Drag & drop images → instant IIIF Image Service
• Create a folder → drag images in → instant presentation manifest!

Work in progress, but already a lot of fun. Ping me if you want to know more!

The competition is open to writers aged 16 and over, based in the UK (including the Channel Islands), writing in English or Scots. Entries must be entirely original, unpublished, and not have won any other competition. Work created, enhanced, or edited by AI tools is ineligible; AI may only be used for basic spelling and grammar checks.

St Magnus International Festival taking a slightly less hardline approach

stmagnusfestival.com/composer-com...

Screenshot of OS 1st ed map of Muckle Skerry. Names include Tenniscourt, Parliament Square, The Kettle

Muckle Skerry has some cracking names

Made a bookmarks site with a link to the search page. Productivity's going to go through the roof
dgplacenames.github.io/bookmarks/

👌

I'll always be obsessed with this edit made by @tommchenry.bsky.social

Completely new to me. Don't know how it's escaped me all these years

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strine

Rousay

A battered paperback book cover, spread out to show front, back, and spine. The book title is A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS, by David Lindsay. A puff quote reads, “One of the most brilliant flights of pure fantasy ever recorded” – London Times. The cover shows a dark purple-black cliff-face. In front of it, from the back to the front cover, a slender dragonish creature coils. It has multiple green wings, and is covered in multi-hued scales: blue and blue-green on top, and yellow and orange beneath. Two slim, androgynous figures are mounted on the dragon's back. Both are dressed in loose robes. The leading figure sits upright, holding reins and directing the dragon; they are wearing a large, flowing red headdress. The figure behind is darker, with their arms wrapped around the leading figure's chest, and their head resting on the other's shoulder.

“I can’t begin to convey to you the power of Lindsay’s vision; I found it overwhelming when I first read the book, thirty years ago, & I’ve seldom seen its equal outside Blake”
—Philip Pullman

David Lindsay (1876–1945), born #OTD, 3 March: author of A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS & other #weird works
💙📚
1/4

Still not been up. Can you see Hoy from the cairn?

Icelandic Manuscript, SÁM 66 - Wikipedia

18th century Icelandic manuscript illustrations? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland...

The old Canmore site let you full screen the map, which was very useful. No such luck on Trove. I got it to about 3/4 full screen pasting some js into the console but it's not ideal having to rely on that.
@tagishsimon.bsky.social another one for the feedback file, if you don't already have it

It's ace. Obviously very excited for the names being added

Yes, it's fantastic isn't it

Stitchers have been hard at work

Map showing 40,001 entries on our map.

We've hit FORTY-THOUSAND entries on openbenches.org 🥰

All contributed by people like you.

Thank you to all our wonderful supporters, brilliant photographers, and open source coders.

Interesting on both counts!

I was going to say that I would suspect 'black' and see that further down your thread that's what Marwick has
I'm really interested in what are (perhaps slightly disparagingly) called folk etymologies so it's valuable in that respect. I don't see that meaning of swart in the SND. Is it one you know?

Collected a few wee, triangular shaped fields called gushet from 19th c estate maps in Dumfriesshire
dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/gu...

Map showing four 'Manitoba' field names in South Ronaldsay, Orkney: 1st Field of Manitoba; 2nd Field of Manitoba; Manitoba - Field with the Water Supply in it; and Old Silage Field - Manitoba.

New Fields of Time post
Distant Horizons: California, Siberia and Manitoba

fieldsoftime.cmackenzie.net/news/2026-03...

It's on FB too: www.facebook.com/profile.php?...

I ken, a scunner

We'll be boycotting the World Cup, aye?

A map showing Scottish place-names containing the string 'green'. Data from the GB1900 gazetteer

'Green' in Scottish Place-Names

Delaunay triangulation, coloured by area

Alas the truth is probably a bit less exciting....John Mainland died on 20 February. This is likely to be the stonemason's equivalent of a typo🤦‍♀️

Lower Cara and the Crimean War

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fieldsoftime.cmackenzie.net/news/2026-02...