Re: OTOT: Do you Googlemap?

ggg wrote:
Do you googlemap your reads? I've taken to doing that where street
names are given in any part of the world. Punch in the street, city,
country and voila, you're there. Lot's of times authors will put in
maps of the area, territory, building, floors, rooms. The good authors
describe and let your mind do the work. So. Where've you been lately?
Barry


I have some hundreds of maps that I consult, half a dozen world atlases (even one from the USSR), and a fairly detailed world map on a CD-ROM from Global Explorer (and, of course, Microsoft's Trips and Streets). If I am not familiar with the city (or even if I am), I use them constantly. I must admit I use them while watching movies as well - most recently, Sahara, which makes an error by indicating that the Niger River goes north from Lagos, when in fact it reaches the ocean about 250 miles to the east. Also, the trip they make up-river to Mali, about 1200 miles, could never be made in three days.

One of my more memorable reading experiences in this area was the opening page of _Playing for the Ashes_ by Elizabeth George, where the narrator describes sitting on a bench that looks at the facades on Cumberland Terrace and up at the statues on the pediments. I stopped dead in my reading. I knew exactly where that was. I had sat on that bench and was moved to take a photograph. I ran down to my study, opened the file cabinet, grabbed the photos for that trip and there it was. A picture of the statues on the pediment of the building she described on Cumberland Terrace. The bench is in Regent's Park, just southeast of the zoo she had just mentioned.

--
Francis A. Miniter

ως ουκ αν αιων' εκμαθοις βροτων, πριν αν
θανη τις, ουτε ει χρηστος ουτ’ ει τω κακος.
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