Our house circa 1963:
From the ultra-cool HistoricAerials.com
Biking Directions on Google Maps
This is so cool. This is what the future is supposed to look like. I wonder how well it works…
The Friends World Committee for Consultation unites Quakers of all stripes together in joint projects and dialog. It’s Americas office has the most complete listing of U.S. and Canadian Friends Meetings and Churches and now has a map to prove it! This is a mash-up of the FWCC database with Google Maps.
Because of limitations of how many data points Google can show the countries have been divided into regions. The main access page is a screen shot of a Google Map with a old fashioned imagemap overlay that allows you to select the region you want to look at. Javascript goodness shadows the currently selected region.
See it live: www.fwccamericas.org/friends
A great service that will geocode addres databases in tab-separated format. See also: USC’s Geocoding resources and their Batch Geocoding service.
I’m not a Civil War buff but this is a cool map of the battle fought near where we stayed this weekend. The troop movements are described and shown against a backdrop of a typographical map, a modern satelite map or a 1930s Aerial photo. Most of the Chantilly battle is under ugly office and residential developments so it’s also a poignant example of our tendency to bury under our history.
