Loch Lomond map scrapped : how do you use toponyms?

[poschiavanus]

I don't know if people noticed the following yesterday: BBC News - Loch Lomond National Park sorry for 'Giro Bay' map. Apparently the people compiling a new map of the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park got carried away with inventing new names!

No doubt any existing copies of the map will become collectors items.

On the other hand I think naturalists are always having to invent names for parts of the local patch: whether it's to tell people where the unusual migrant is to be found, or the location of the Bee Orchid, or to make sure the conservation work party don't chop down the wrong tree.

I'm aware of a lot of names in local reserves which have been 'invented' over the past 50 years, but which are used by lots of people in everyday conversation. I wonder what other people's experience is?

[seamusagleann]

have noticed that too! Over many years working in the forestry several names have been given to local features that include names of workers or incidents that have happened ,sights seen ect! but these have been purely for the benefit of ourselves as mostly some of them are in the gaelic ! one such place is Calley's Burn ,not that Calley ever worked there! it was where we were working on the morning of his funeral!!

[Brocakat]

The use of personal names /incidents in both Mountaineering and Caving is extremely rife.