James Avery’s blog

Earlier on this evening, I posted out my last batch of Christmas cards, leaving just a few local ones for the morning. Then I get a Swiss Cottage (London) address for a friend from Hong Kong. The idea of the CBM (Chess Board Map) concept is that simple links between places can be drawn on a text file map which can be printed out rapidly on one sheet of A4 paper. The links don’t have to be geographical - the more lateral (INSIDE the box) the connection, the better - as long as it makes sense to the end user.

Some of my links will never make sense to some people, but I hope that everyone can understand the idea of Victoria, as you don’t have to go too far to find somewhere named after her (the British Queen), or after the name derivation (Latin for victory). I would start at Victoria Park in my home town of Royal Leamington Spa, but I haven’t counted that in the list as it isn’t really well known outside Warwickshire.

Victoria Station in London might be an obvious place to start, but there are several other Victoria stations in the UK, not to mention the former Victoria station in the former Bombay. Down under we have Melbourne, state capital of Victoria, and there is also a Victoria University in Wellington, capital of New Zealand. I hope you get the gist - I know there’s a couple left out - maybe Leamington should be included; then there’s the Swedish Queen and Mexico’s first president, but this is the list for now.

The first code is for the airport which serves the city mentioned (as a general rule, no airport = no mention), and the second is for the closest reference on the Chess Board Map (CBM) - e.g. London = C2. Bold CBM references are for cities which are directly on the map, standard text is where the CBM references the nearest point:

Sorry about problems with formatting. I will try and fix this in the morning.

Sorry about problems with formatting. I will try and fix this in the morning.