Brian Dominic wrote:
> Bob Wood wrote:
>
> >On Thursday, September 28, 2006 3:44 PM [GMT+1=CET],
> >Waterscape.com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> The following restriction has been announced:
> >>
> >> River Trent
> >> Boots Thane Road Bridge, Nottingham
>
> That's actually part of the Trent-avoiding "through route" through
> Nottingham, so I can understand why they've put it under the "Trent"
> heading.
I'll own up to making that decision back in my Waterscape days. Either we could
have put it
all as "River Trent". Or we could have had separate waterway pages for "River
Trent",
"Nottingham Canal (navigable section)" (which would presuppose "Nottingham
Canal
(unnavigable section)"), "Beeston Cut", etc. etc. ad infinitum, or at least, ad
Pons Cavendish
in Shardlovium. And you'd have had to check four stoppage pages instead of one.
Somehow it seemed a lot easier to describe it all as the River Trent.
I guess the really correct and pedantic solution would have been to call it the
Trent
Navigation, but then, Waterscape's target audience is a bit less knowledgeable
about
waterway names than most people on this list, and "Trent Navigation" isn't a
very
meaningful term if you're planning a walking or cycling trip.
Richard
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