Re: OTOT: Do you Googlemap?
- From: ggg <bmvolkman@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:35:39 -0800 (PST)
On Nov 19, 10:23 am, "Francis A. Miniter" <famini...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
ggg wrote:
On Nov 17, 9:30 pm, "Francis A. Miniter" <famini...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
ggg wrote:
Do you googlemap your reads? I've taken to doing that where streetI have some hundreds of maps that I consult, half a dozen
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
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 ουτʼ ει τω κακος.
Googlemaps also provide street views in several cities so that you can
actually view the elevation of a building and look at its environs.
When, as part of the victory celebration, they talked about the joy of
the people in Obama, Japan. I went and took a look at where it was.
They had an actual street view photograph to click on. But, the
freedom to enjoy the world without leaving my computer desk is
fabulous.
B
You remind me that when I read _The Alienist_ the last scene
(the time is the 1890s) takes place at a reservoir in the
middle of Manhattan (around 5th Avenue and the high 30s). I
delved into the Internet and sure enough there were pictures
of a massive reservoir about 10 stories tall sitting above
ground in the middle of the city. Fortunately, they
realized that this was a bad idea and dismantled it before
it broke and killed thousands of people.
--
Francis A. Miniter
ως ουκ αν αιων' εκμαθοις βροτων, πριν αν
θανη τις, ουτε ει χρηστος ουτʼ ει τω κακος.
The aqueduct system into New York is truly amazing. It may be one of
the great underground systems in the world. The entire aquifer of the
Adirondacks, Catskills, every small and large reservoir on either side
of the Hudson down through Putnam and Westchester counties form a
system that is engineered to serve NYC. Local communities have to rent
their own facilities from the city.
.
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