Awesome Stuff: Maps Aren't Just An App On Your Phone
from the where-to-go? dept
I don't know why I've been thinking about maps lately -- perhaps it's because I've been traveling, and as this is posted, I'll actually be in an airplane flying home. I've always been a fan of maps -- all kinds of maps -- and can spend an inordinate amount of time looking at various maps. So it's interesting to see a few map or map-related products all show up at the same time on Kickstarter. These days, "maps" for many mean the app they can call up on their smartphone -- but people are doing some fun things with the more old-fashioned kind of maps as well:- We'll start with a cool idea: making Risk-like boards that highlight certain regions. So, rather than the "world" map you see in regular Risk, you can play a Risk-like game in your home city. Of course, as it is they have a limited number of places right now -- but they include San Francisco, New York and a variety of other places as well.
- Next up, we've got Bucketlistmap: Putting the Awesome Back in Maps -- which clearly fits in with our theme here. If you like old maps and their great design, you'll probably really like this one. These guys are trying to take the beautiful design and style of really old maps and update them for a modern era. They've already done really cool world maps for skiing, surfing and football (soccer for us uncultured Americans) and now they want to do a "bucketlistmap," which will be the same sort of thing, but highlighting "the world's most awesome sights, smells, sounds and eats." Definitely click through on this one to check out the pictures.
- Finally, we've got some guys trying to put together Grant Rising: First in a New Series of Civil War Map Books. It's an "atlas" of maps that try to tell the story of Civil War general and one-time US President Ulysses S. Grant. It's an interesting idea. I'd never thought of telling someone's life story through maps.
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I am waiting for the kids to map their schools and somebody come screaming "Columbine! Columbine!"
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Terrorists will do something bad with realtime mapping technology.
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I point out evidence that Mike's view's have not changed from google's contribution to the sky is rising report since he has held his views BEFORE there ever was a google, and somehow they still claim Mike was being loyal to a "paymaster" a a time when they did not exist!
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Hasbro? The same "we are legally required to sue our fans" Hasbro? Yeah, that's not happening. They're gonna get C&D'd within 3 days of being funded, probably within 24 hours.
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