DO YOU know your Electric Beach from your Tom Tiddler's Field?

Do you have a nickname for your favourite part of town?

A new exhibition aimed at putting you and your Hampshire stories literally on the map is coming to the city.

Make Your Mark is a collaboration between global cartography experts Ordnance Survey and Southampton-based illustrator Nathan Evans.

Together with curators at Solent Showcase Gallery they want you to add your tales of the city onto a giant interactive map. Projecting the Southampton coordinates onto the gallery floor, the ten week show is a bid to create a user-generated record of personal stories - in a bid to uncover the stories that might otherwise go overlooked.

Visitors will be asked to become the map makers, while local artists, groups and schools will also share their creative mapping ideas in a changing display throughout the exhibition.

Part oral history, park folklore and part personal homage, Make Your Mark will rethink what Southampton means to its citizens, drawing on its hidden experiences, its contemporary social geography and its future.

“Southampton is the largest city in Hampshire, home to over 200,000 residents and a major port. The aim of the Make Your Mark exhibition is to put the hidden gems of Southampton into the spotlight, scratch the surface and find a host of experiences and hidden histories,” said curator Kate Maple.

She added: "We hope over the next three months, Make Your Mark will change the way people think about a place and the city itself, by unveiling the smallest, most non-descript spaces – bringing to life the people and stories who inhabit them.

"Ordnance Survey's expertise has been key in how to represent Southampton as a walkthrough map and by providing maps for the schools and community workshops."

David Henderson, Ordnance Survey Director, said: “Maps communicate enormous amounts of information and can help people understand complex themes very quickly.

“As an organisation, we are very interested in the relationship people have with a location, and sharing memories and storytelling has a big part to play in that.

"One of our datasets, Fintan, contains more than half a million local nicknames for places on the coast of Great Britain. It is used by the Maritime and Coastguard agency, and each day it helps saves lives. We are delighted to be a part of this exhibition and hope it will offer residents and visitors to Southampton a different view of the city.”

"We are delighted to be a part of this exhibition and hope it will offer residents and visitors to Southampton a different view of the city.”

The exhibition runs from January 18 to March 30 at Solent Showcase Gallery on Above Bar.

As reported curators at the gallery have recently received a number of awards for their exhibitions.