Every entry here is one decision taken somewhere between the ground and the sheet: a projection chosen before the terrain was known, an interval that decides what counts as a hill, a boundary drawn around a population target, a name printed while its variants stay in the file.

Each entry carries its source scale and its method in the margin, so a reader can see what a claim is founded on before reading the claim. Where two official records disagree, the register states the separation and leaves both standing rather than quietly picking one.

A draughtsman at a desk reading a large drawing, reference books open beside him

Compilation is desk work. What a field party recorded is turned into lines by someone who was not there.

Photo: Ron Lach / Pexels

The register describes processes, measurements and history. It takes no position on policy and campaigns for nothing.

What it is not

This is not a society. There is no membership, no journal, no conference, no committee and no grant programme. Nothing here is affiliated with any geographical association, and no such affiliation should be inferred from the domain name.