A CNN story informs us that Georgia's Department of Transportation has issued a new official map that's been sadly simplified:
Poetry Tulip has vanished. So have Due West and Po Biddy Crossroads. Cloudland and Roosterville are gone, too...What you call illegible, I call a linguistic feast, dammit! Posted by languagehat at December 21, 2006 06:50 PMGone are such places as Dewy Rose, Hemp, Experiment, Retreat, Wooster, Sharp Top and Chattoogaville, a spot in far northwestern Georgia that consists of little more than a two-truck volunteer fire department, a few farmhouses and a country store where locals fill up their gas tanks.
"We're not under obligation to show every single community," department spokeswoman Karlene Barron said. "While we want to, there's a balancing act. And the map was getting illegible."
The Georgia DOT may well find itself having to back down. This is not a popular decision.
Posted by: Fragano Ledgister at December 21, 2006 07:07 PMA map that just simply leaves out a hamlet consisting of "a two-truck volunteer fire department, a few farmhouses and a country store where locals fill up their gas tanks" is unusable as a practical regional map in my, er, atlas.
Posted by: Chris Waigl at December 22, 2006 10:04 AM