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OS: National mapping agency, Ordnance Survey and the Maritime & Coastguard Agency are collaborating on a vernacular geography project, collecting local place names used by people to improve emergency responses., collecting local place names used by people to improve emergency responses.
Ordnance Survey’s research department have created a new system, FINTAN, which is being trialled in the MCA Maritime Rescue Coordination Centres (MRCCs) at Clyde, Solent, Holyhead and Stornoway. The system allows staff to add local names for beaches, rocks, waterways and other features with local names onto the existing mapping data, something which is of interest & benefit to both organisations and the public.
