Wordle, Word Maps and Barmaids

There are many of examples of word maps to be found and I mentioned Paula Scher after a tip off and Merrill Shatzman to name just two and there are many ways to construct a word map. Wordle is one way to generate a word map or maybe better described as a word cloud, but you can enter text or link to a website to generate your map based on the words and how often they appear, so the more often they appear the big they are. I wanted to make on using a list of Wellington street names, but have not found a good source yet. But I did find a list of registered barmaids in Wellington from 1913, I did not no that barmaids needed to register and secondly how many there were. The image below is just the a - g surnames, I plan to look at how to combine it with a map of Wellington later.

Mrs L Lahman, barmaid at the Grand Hotel, Wellington. Dominion post (Newspaper) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers. Ref: EP/1963/0163-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22696157

Merrill Shatzman