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Close-up of the mall directory. Note that the only two remaining mall entrances were both near Carsons (on mall's west side). The ones on the east side near the demolished Wards store were both also removed.
Sherry gave me a push-pin world map for Christmas last year. Here is the section for the continental USA.
Yellow pins are for the states I've lived in, some more than once (7; NY, OH, OK, WV, RI, MA, KY). Red pins are for the other states that I've spent some some quality time in. There are also some red pins thrown in for locations in Canada where I have been (BC, ON, QB). Green pins are for the states I have left to visit (EDIT: as of Oct 3, 2009 I have visited MS, so now it's 8; OR, ID, MT, WY, ND, NM, also AK, HI... ).
The yellow flag is for a "favorite destination" (AZ for Sherry). The blue flag is supposed to be for a planned trip - it was San Francisco in April '08.... we just got back from our vacation western coast of Michigan (Aug '08)...
EDIT on 8/17/12 - I will be taking a trip to Alaska, so soon I'll be down to 7 states
I am a huge Google Maps fan, but with it's birds-eye navigator and real-time traffic info, Yahoo has outdone Google! Check it out: http://maps.yahoo.com/beta/index.php
Routing 30,000 randomly-chosen trips through the paths suggested by 10,000 randomly-chosen geotags. These are perhaps the most interesting routes between the endpoints of the trips, even if not necessarily the most likely.
Data from the Twitter streaming API, August, 2011. Base map from OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA.
39. Grand Prix Osterhas am Ostersamstag, 31. März 2018, auf der Lindenmoosstrasse in Affoltern am Albis..Foto Martin Platter
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Historic maps on sale on the wall of Waitrose in Berkhamsted. Vending machine is cool, map is really boring. Inspired to make a better one.
This float is a good reminder. Thank You Canada. Now it will need to be updated as Argentina legalizes gay marriage. Map already outdated, so to speak. Sometimes change does happen fast.
1886 "Bird's-Eye" map view of Fort Worth's "North End and Driving Park" by Norris, Wellge & Co. Milwaukee, WI (greatly enlarged) of the 700 and 800 blocks of Samuels Avenue showing: 1. The c. 1885 Gezendanner House; 2. the early c.1883 William B. and Lula Foster-Garvey cottage; 3. the Isaac and Mary Cornelia Samuel-Foster home c. 1882; 4. the Conrad and Hannah Morgan home c. 1870's; 5 Nathaniel Terry and later Baldwin Samuel house c. 1850's; 6. Madam Frankie Brown's infamous house of pleasure later a respecable orphanage c. late 1870's.
The previous post came through without labels. Here's a lower res screen capture of the map with labels.
The Map Room came into use on the very first day that the Cabinet War Rooms were ready for occupation and never ceased to be the hub of the site until VJ Day. On the following day, 16 August 1945, the Map Room lights were finally turned out and the room was left almost exactly as it is today with every map, book, chart, pin and notice occupying the same position now that they occupied then.
The Map Room remained open day and night and the chief task of the officers manning this room was to collate and summarise all relevant information on the progress of the war and present it on maps, which would be constantly updated. ‘The Cabinet War Room Record’ was a daily news sheet that was compiled for transmission every morning to the Prime Minister, the Chiefs of Staff and the War Cabinet. One copy, for the attention of the King, was taken to Buckingham Palace by the Duty Officer every morning.
Four Map Room officers, representing each of the Armed Forces and the Ministry of Home Security, sat either side of the long table in the centre of the room. The Duty Officer was selected from each service in turn and occupied the seat at the head of the table. The series of coloured telephones down the centre of the table were known to the Map Room officers as the ‘beauty chorus’ and had flashing lights as an alternative to bells – they were colour coded and used to communicate with intelligence services, another service war room or the War Rooms own switchboard. The three black phones with green receivers were fitted with scramblers, a device that rendered the conversation meaningless and just a jumble of noise until it was unscrambled at the receiving end.
The large map of the world covering the southern wall of the room hangs where it hung for most of the war. It was used to plot the position of convoys and the movements of individual warships – the thousands of tiny dots which cloud the surface of the map are pinholes left by markers shifted around by the map keepers. During the war this map became so perforated with pin-holes that the outlines of the principal convoy routes could be seen from the other end of the room.
The blackboard which hangs on one of the pillars was used during the Battle of Britain to note the numbers of enemy aircraft destroyed each day.
Access to the Map Room was strictly controlled. The privileged few who were allowed in included visiting heads of Allied countries or armed forces and the King and Queen themselves came to the Map Room in May 1942.