We practised our identification skills in the areas around Lochnagar in the Grampians and Helvellyn in the Lake District by comparing maps and photos.
You might like to pursue this line of study by looking at images of both areas on ...
. If you don't know about the Geograph project , click on the graphic and it will link to the Geograph website. Click on 'search' in the panel on the left and enter 'Helvellyn' in the place name box. You will be offered many thumbnails of views around Helvellyn such as this excellent winter view...
If you click on any of the thumbnails they will open up in their own page. Look below the image and beside the heading 'maps', click on 'OS Get-a-Map'. This will link you directly to a 1:25000 map of the grid square in which the photo was taken. Try it and see if you recognise the contour patterns!
Here is another image which I have copied out of Geograph - the backwall of Lochnagar this time. You should be able to locate the view on the map you were given in class last week.Geograph is a project which aims to upload representative images for every km grid square in the British Isles. There are now over a quarter of a million images covering more than 50% of all the grid squares. You can search for landscape features as well as place names or grid references and you can link every image you find directly to an OS map. Try to find time to explore Geograph - you won't be disappointed!
P.S. My apologies if this posting does not look as well laid out as it might be - bloggers around the world are currently experiencing great difficulty in uploading images. Hopefully, the problem will be resolved soon. In the meantime, bear with me.
