just in the interests of phIL and keeping LIS concepts alive, a recent journey into an historically complex place, which might be called Flandres, or Flanders, or Brabant, or Burgundy, or France, or Belgium, or rather a large other stack of strings, though not all used at the same time perhaps except here reminded me of the strengths of Michelin, the paper things, which frequent travellers will remember come in three parts, like Ceasar's Gaul.
There is the map, at a variety of scales, with the notation well known. There is the Green Guide, as they call it, which inherits the notation from the map, or the other way round, but which provides you only with alphabetical order, and is far from green. And there is the Red Book, which isn't a Rough Guide.
Comparing this resource, for all its weakness, as a starting point, with anything else, says to moi that there is something of the property of a system in this and its betterment an exercise worthy of infopolecon. So what we want to do is map in the railways rather than the motorways. This is information systems. It might be information science? Storing the green, the red, and the maps so anyone may find them is certainly librarianship. Sorting out Lille and Courtai is politics, history, philosophy and information literacy. Working out what the notice means which says that Vauban laid out the parks on the ramparts (which might be weak translation) will keep me going for weeks.
Web 2.0, socks.
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