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Upcoming Hurricanes
Web comic xkcd imagines upcoming hurricanes. Via Cartophilia…. »
Posted on Thursday, July 24, 2008 at 10:03 AM
Categories: Fun, Weather & Climate
The Vacationeers: Google My Maps Gets Spooky
The Vacationeers, they are at it again: Via Cartophilia. Previously: Google Maps Street View Is Right Behind You…. »
Posted on Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 9:06 AM
Categories: Fun, Video
A Roundup of Interesting Map Links
A few quick map and map-related gems to share with you: Claire showcases another collection of map tattoos. Indiana Jones and the Fonts on the Maps: Mark Simonson notes that the maps used in the Indiana Jones movies are anachronistic…. »
Posted on Sunday, June 22, 2008 at 8:24 PM
Categories: Driving Directions, Fun, Miscellany, Paris, Triangulations (Links)
This Side Up
Hilarity ensues when road painters marking no-parking areas on a road in Waltham Abbey, Essex, paint the wrong side of the road because they read the map upside down. (This is not the upside-down map the Australians had in mind.)… »
Posted on Sunday, May 25, 2008 at 10:20 AM
Categories: Fun
The Office
GPS Review has a clip from an episode of (the U.S. version of) The Office that satirizes the news stories about GPS-navigation-related accidents…. »
Posted on Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 2:58 PM
Categories: Driving Directions, Fun, Video
April Fool’s and Online Maps
Roundups of April Foolery related to Google Maps and Google Earth are available at Google Earth Blog and Google Maps Mania. X-ray and thermal imagery, copyrighted landscapes, and smiley faces abound. And how is this not an April Fool’s joke?… »
Posted on Tuesday, April 1, 2008 at 6:30 PM
Categories: Fun, Online Maps
Bizarre Sights in Google Street View
The Times has the 10 most bizarre sights in Google Street View; Valleywag has the pictures…. »
Posted on Monday, March 10, 2008 at 8:56 PM
Categories: Fun, Online Maps
The Longitude and Latitude Song
John Krygier points to the “Longitude and Latitude” song. Performed by Tom Glazer and Dottie Evans, the song comes from Space Songs, one of several science-education albums recorded in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Six of those albums can… »
Posted on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 7:36 PM
Categories: Education, Fun
‘You Have No Idea Where China Is, Do You?’
At least a year old, but I only saw this FedEx ad for the first time this morning:… »
Posted on Sunday, February 3, 2008 at 10:33 AM
Categories: Fun, Video
Google Maps Street View Is Right Behind You
The Vacationeers take Google Maps Street View a little too far: Via Valleywag. Previously: Real-Time Satellite Imagery: EarthNow vs. The Simpsons; The Truth About Google Earth…. »
Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 at 7:33 PM
Categories: Fun, Video
The Hipster GPS
Introducing the Hipster GPS: “Inspired by 43Folders’s Hipster PDA, the Hipster GPS takes a similarly low tech approach. Also, the price of entry is far below that of an electronic GPS system.” Photo by James Foreman. Via 43Folders…. »
Posted on Thursday, July 12, 2007 at 10:32 AM
Categories: Fun, GPS
D&D Map of Online Communities
XKCD’s map of online communities purports to represent the estimated size of each community by geographic area; more noteworthy is that it’s in the style of a D&D (or fantasy trilogy) map and has lots of little in-jokes, web-related… »
Posted on Wednesday, May 2, 2007 at 7:31 AM
Categories: Fun
Real-Time Satellite Imagery: EarthNow vs. The Simpsons
Live, accessible satellite imagery is a pipe dream, but EarthNow is probably as close as we’ll ever get: it’s not live, but (updated; see below) it is real-time — just delayed a few hours. It’s essentially a Java applet… »
Posted on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 at 7:56 PM
Categories: Fun, Satellite & Aerial, Video
April Fool: Revelations Stun Map Historians (Again)
This didn’t turn up on MapHist until April 2, but I think there’s an even chance that you’ll enjoy it all the same. It’s a riff on Peter Trickett’s claim that the Portuguese discovered Australia, and it apparently comes to… »
Posted on Tuesday, April 3, 2007 at 10:48 AM
Categories: Fun
Royal Mail Delivers Letter with Only a Map for an Address
Holy crap. A Welsh man sent a letter to a friend in Cornwall with no address or even the name of a town on the envelope — just a map with an arrow labelled “somewhere here” — and it… »
Posted on Thursday, January 4, 2007 at 2:19 PM
Categories: Fun
Google Pushpins Explained
Oh. So that’s how it’s done. Via Matt…. »
Posted on Thursday, November 30, 2006 at 8:13 AM
Categories: Fun
A Walking Map of Ontario
Canadians in general must have maps on the brain; it’s not just me, and it’s not just the Canadian bloggers, cartographers and geospatial pros that keep getting featured on this blog (see, for example, the two previous posts). Otherwise, why… »
Posted on Sunday, June 11, 2006 at 10:31 PM
Categories: Fun
Google Maps TV Ad — Not
Screenhead draws our attention to this ad for Google Maps (QuickTime), which is almost certainly not legit, but rather a production done on spec by a firm. Still. Giggle away…. »
Posted on Thursday, December 1, 2005 at 3:06 PM
Categories: Fun

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