What qualifications have to be met before a geographical location is listed in an atlas?

Question

I live in the US, but watch alot of BBC shows and series. In general, I always keep a dictionary and also a pretty big/comprehensive world atlas. I have been watching Gordon Ramsays Kitchen Nightmares and sometimes i'm not able to find some of the locations in my atlas. One of the towns was Ambleside, another King's Lynn.

Answer 1

Yahoo has a maps feature. I was able to find King's Lynn using Yahoo Maps -- UK & Ireland. King's Lynn is between Peterborough and Aylsham.

http://maps.yahoo.net/ Just enter Kings Lynn in the "city" field.

Do the same thing for Ambleside. Ambleside is very small. It's north west of Kendal, and south of Carlisle.

Every atlas makes it's own determination as to what it will include and label on it's maps. The nice thing about seaching on line with Yahoo Maps is the zoom feature. You can zoom out to see the bigger picture, and zoom in for more detail, all the way to the street level.