A glass of water destroyed Joy’s smart phone. It happened during lunch. We don’t care if we miss calls, it’s the turn-by-turn directions from Google Maps that we miss. So while we’re without a smart phone, we’re using “CoPilot GPS.” It brings turn-by-turn directions even when you can’t connect to the Internet.
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Joy just created a map of the best vegetarian restaurants around town. Now she can put that map into the Google Maps Gallery. Previously, the Google Maps Gallery only showcased maps from heavy hitters like the National Geographic, NASA, or the World Bank. Now you can do one too.
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“Marco Polo,” an app named after the children’s game, lets you send your location to one or more friends instead of broadcasting it to everyone. Tap the “Marco” button and friends you select get a pin on a map showing where you are. Next, your friends will have a chance to tap their location back to you.
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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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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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