Spell It Out

Below is work of recent University of Portsmouth graduate Jodie Silby, who created a "Portsmouth Vernacular" map using words to create directional lines of the map. The map presents the geography of the city in addition to the dialect and language that's used around it. In addition to an introduction to the map, there is an alphabetical index and translations for mapped dialect. I think the work is both visually and conceptually interesting, but I wonder if having a map of a more well-traveled city would make the map more enticing.