I spend waaaay to much time zooming in Google maps to see how close I can get. I’ve seen my car parked in front of my apartment, and my parents’ cars, and the lounge chairs at the neighborhood pool… Don’t tell anyone, but I sometimes type in any old zip code to see where I end up – I’ve gawked at everything from million dollar houses with humongous pools next to golf courses to some pretty sketchy trailer parks. It’s pretty interesting to see how the other half lives, no matter what half you happen to be.Tuesday, February 19, 2008
It’s a Small World
I spend waaaay to much time zooming in Google maps to see how close I can get. I’ve seen my car parked in front of my apartment, and my parents’ cars, and the lounge chairs at the neighborhood pool… Don’t tell anyone, but I sometimes type in any old zip code to see where I end up – I’ve gawked at everything from million dollar houses with humongous pools next to golf courses to some pretty sketchy trailer parks. It’s pretty interesting to see how the other half lives, no matter what half you happen to be.
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Mapping, not a hobby, a lifestyle.
I like the way the Swiss are colored as if they're a subset of the Italians and the Poles as a subset of Russians. Then again if I was Swiss or Polish I'd probably be a bit irked. BTW - steal my maps all you want - most of them are stolen from elsewhere anyway!
Yeah - I've done things like the zip code on google before too. I wonder if there's therapy for people like us.
This is one of the many maps near the end of the exhibit that I didn't have time to see when I visited the Field Museum in January. I was focusing on the historical maps. When I see the exhibit in Baltimore I'll make a point to check this one out - if I can tear myself away from the van den Keere double hemisphere projection, the Mercator projection, the Waghenaer coastal map, the Ptolemy Geographia, the Cassini Carte de France...
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