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A pox on your box

Thursday, October 4, 2018 8:11

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Practical but wrong

The BBC tells us of a fascinating problem which has apparently irked the inhabitants of Shetland for decades – the map box.

New rules barring public bodies from putting Shetland in a box on official documents have come into force.

Islands MSP Tavish Scott had sought to change the law to ban the “geographical mistake” which “irks” locals, by amending the Islands (Scotland) Bill.

The final rule written into the bill requires the islands to be “displayed in a manner that accurately and proportionately represents their geographical location in relation to the rest of Scotland” in any documents published by Scottish public authorities.

Of course the Ordnance Survey came up with some pettifogging practical implications which do nothing to resolve the irk..

Only the Scottish Conservatives spoke out against the move at Holyrood, with MSP Peter Chapman calling it “impractical” and warning it would reduce the amount of detail in maps due to changing scales.

This was backed by the Ordnance Survey mapping agency, which said inset boxes avoid “publishing maps which are mostly sea”.

A spokesman for the company said: “The Shetland Islands are approximately 245km (152 miles) from the Scottish mainland, from the most northerly part of the Shetland Islands to John O’ Groats, and 690km (428 miles) from the most southerly point of the Scottish and English border.

“It would be virtually impossible to print a paper map, with any usable detail, of this vast geography.

It suggests to me that Shetland life is idyllic if this was high on the list of irks. What next though – now the irk seems to be resolved? It isn’t easy to think of anything less irksome than this but Shetland folk need to find something to replace their major irk.

Source: https://akhaart.blogspot.com/2018/10/a-pox-on-your-box.html

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