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Subject: RE: Does your city have a nickname?
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:38:49 -0400
From: Redmond, Edward James <[log in to unmask]>
To: 'Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship'
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One reference source
(1979) that you may be of use - but only for the US - is
http://lccn.loc.gov/79020193 :
Nicknames and sobriquets of U.S. cities, States, and counties / Joseph
Nathan Kane & Gerard L. Alexander. (Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1979)
Ed Redmond, Library of Congress
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Subject: Re: Does your city have a nickname?
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Subject: Re: Does your city have a nickname?
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:18:03 -0400
From: Paige Andrew <[log in to unmask]>
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Good luck with the problem of multiple cities sharing the same nickname!
My hometown of Seattle is known as the "Emerald City" but that same
nickname has been taken on by others...
Paige
On 8/30/2011 9:15 AM, Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library,
UW Milwaukee wrote:
> forwarded from cartosoc
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> Subject: [carto-soc] Does your city have a nickname?
> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:35:26 +0100
> From: Steve Chilton <[log in to unmask]>
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> CC: Nathaniel V. Kelso <[log in to unmask]>
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> Nat Kelso is collecting nicknames for big cities, want to help? From
> the Windy City (Chicago) to Hotlanta (Atlanta), LND (London) to SF
> (San Francisco). We should be able to type these nicknames into a
> place search and have the right result come back without fuss. And
> nicknames are fun. Results will be rolled back into Natural Earth in a
> future update.
>
> Add your city to the Google Doc: kelso.it/x/18s
>
> Cheers
> STEVE
>
> Steve Chilton, Learning Support Fellow Educational Development Manager
> Centre for Learning and Teaching Enhancement Middlesex University
> phone: 020 8411 5355
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> http://www.soc.org.uk/neocartography/
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