Confused about Where Places Are? New Maps Pin Them Down; PERCEPTION DIFFERENCES COULD EVEN FIND ROATH

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Byline: CIARAN JONES

WEST WALES, the East End of London - we all know where they are.

But when it comes to pinpointing exactly where they are on the map we may well be struggling.

Now a group of Welsh researchers have launched a website to try to map the informal and vernacular place names around the UK.

As project leaders found, what might be West Wales for one person could be completely different in someone else's eyes.

Chris Jones, professor of geographical information systems at Cardiff University's School of Computer Science and Informatics, said the data would be very useful for computer-based searches.

He said: "Our …