Go to the National Geographic web site for a huge collection of maps, both old and modern. NASA has great space photos and some galactic maps. Remember, though, as the semanticist Count Alfred Korzybski said: “The map is not the territory.”
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DavidRumsey.com has over 34,000 antique maps, including the one that explorers Lewis and Clark made while exploring America from the Mississippi to the Pacific.
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TinyUrl.com/Wanderlustmaps shows the routes taken by famous explorers, all the way up to modern times and people like Jack Kerouac of the beat generation. We were surprised to see how far Captain Cook wandered off course on his way back from New Zealand and Australia in 1768. Got swept out to sea, you might say. Clicking “explore” gives you a photo and story for each point on the voyage. We read that Cook’s scientific experiments were a cover for England’s true purpose of finding a southern continent and claiming it for the crown. They found something called Australia. We learned that Magellan and his crew survived by eating leather straps from the ship’s rigging. No word on how prepared.
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GoogleEarthAnomalies.com lets you do field archeology from your desk. Researcher Angela Micol found four mounds that may be lost pyramids in Egypt. (You know: things get covered up if you don’t dust regularly.) One of them is 620 feet across, about three times the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
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– Google Docs now has a “research” tool that lets you search the web without leaving the program. And you can add footnotes. To try it out, click “tools” in Google and
choose “research.”
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Google “Latitude” and Apple’s “Find My Friends” are two free apps that help you, well, find your friends. “Find My Friends” works only with Apple’s latest mobile operating system, but Google’s “Latitude” works with anything. Still, if you really want to know what’s going on, you might want a tracking device, like “PocketFinder.”
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One of our favorite Windows commands is “Cntrl-C,” the “copy” command. This allows you to copy any text or pictures you highlighted with the mouse. A new program called “ClickTo” makes this even more powerful — and it’s free. Using the copy command, either from the keyboard or a menu selection, will give you a whole lot of choices of where to paste what you copied. Choose the “Google” icon, and the info goes into the search box at Google.com. Choose Facebook or Twitter and your item automatically becomes a post. You can also choose to move the copied item to Microsoft Word, Excel, Gmail, Evernote, Google Translate and a dozen others.
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“Sygic” is an app you can buy for the iPhone or Android phone that gives you offline maps and turn-by-turn directions. It’s handy if you don’t have a connection to the Internet. The U.S. map is $22.
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