#britain posts — Ben Crowder https://bencrowder.net/blog/tag/britain/ Feed for blog posts tagged with #britain. Fri, 17 Apr 2026 23:19:59 GMT en-US https://bencrowder.net/ Outline map of Britain and Ireland https://bencrowder.net/blog/2013/outline-map-of-britain-and-ireland/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2013/outline-map-of-britain-and-ireland/ Sat, 21 Dec 2013 12:00:00 GMT So I got this idea of making an outline map of Britain and Ireland and then compiling a list of fifty populous/famous towns and cities, to see how well I can locate them on the map. Being an Anglophile, I thought I’d do pretty well. Ha. It was sad. (But I did get London.)

Anyway, should you care to test your knowledge, you can now download PDFs of both the map and my semi-arbitrary list of towns and cities. Enjoy.

Notes on how I made these

For the map, I used TileMill to style and generate the map lines. I exported the map to SVG, converted it to Illustrator, and then imported it into InDesign and added the label.

For the list of towns and cities, I took a list of the most populous cities and added in some literary places as well. Basically, it’s a very-not-comprehensive list of places in Britain and Ireland that I’ve heard of.

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