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Exile
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10 Dec 2008, 2:04 pm

Saw this map several weeks ago and tried then to place myself. Don't think it worked for me either.

Hardly matters. I'm "Down in the Boondocks."

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10 Dec 2008, 4:03 pm

mitharatowen wrote:

Wow! This is awesome!

Great find! :thumright:

I'm too scared to add myself tho! :lol:

I would like in the ideal world to stick myself on the map but I value my privacy too much and I would rather say very little about my location. I am somewhere in europe. I define europe as a techtonic plate. It includes Ireland and England/Scotland/Wales goes as far east as the urals, as far north as the arctic and as far south as spain and Turkey.

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10 Dec 2008, 5:38 pm

ephemerella wrote:

and it's confusing to get around, and everything seems to be a mission. An open landscape and simple layout is to a town is much more appealing to me.

Uh, the actual D.C. city and alexandria, VA is designed that way. You must be referring to the rest of the suburban sprawl around D.C. and Baltimore.

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10 Dec 2008, 5:40 pm

Woodpecker wrote:

I am somewhere in europe. I define europe as a techtonic plate. It includes Ireland and England/Scotland/Wales goes as far east as the urals, as far north as the arctic and as far south as spain and Turkey.

I was going to ask something to that effect

Do you live in the European Union? It's funny as many of the people who put "Europe" as their location live in the EU and probably not in Russia or the Caucases or Turkey

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10 Dec 2008, 5:50 pm

I added me to the new one Tahitiii!

Last edited by mitharatowen on 10 Dec 2008, 5:57 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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10 Dec 2008, 5:56 pm

I added myself, Kirska in TX

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10 Dec 2008, 6:56 pm

Warsie wrote:

ephemerella wrote:

and it's confusing to get around, and everything seems to be a mission. An open landscape and simple layout is to a town is much more appealing to me.

Uh, the actual D.C. city and alexandria, VA is designed that way. You must be referring to the rest of the suburban sprawl around D.C. and Baltimore.

No and Yes. Neither open nor simple. DC and Alexandria have gridded street layouts, but not particularly simple to get here and there due to traffic. Like Manhattan. Yes, tho, I am referring to the suburbs, too.

Chicago is a great town!

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10 Dec 2008, 6:59 pm

Warsie wrote:

Woodpecker wrote:

I was going to ask something to that effect

Do you live in the European Union? It's funny as many of the people who put "Europe" as their location live in the EU and probably not in Russia or the Caucases or Turkey

It's almost like a puzzle. Why did he include the other info. Is he in the British Isles, or the Urals? Or Turkey?

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10 Dec 2008, 8:55 pm

Woodpecker wrote:

I am somewhere in Europe.

Um... The title of this thread is "Meet-Up Map." The idea is to find out who lives close enough to think about meeting in the real world. No one cares where your actual house is. Anything within a five-mile radius would be good enough. The WP map had a purpose too, just to see roughly where everyone is. Again, no one cares about the exact location.

mitharatowen wrote:

I added me to the new one Tahitiii!

Kirska wrote:

I added myself, Kirska in TX

and Zeichner makes four of us. Not close enough to meet, but it's a start.

The (old) WP map still shows my Fish avatar in the top spot.
Does that mean that no one has touched it since I did?
(I'm still not sure how it works.)

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11 Dec 2008, 2:22 pm

Added myself to the old one.

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12 Dec 2008, 12:32 am

just added myself to the "old" one. "Howdy" from Austin, Texas. yeah, yeah I got your Howdy right here.

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13 Dec 2008, 6:13 am

Awwww how wonderful, a meet-up map! Please someone, tell me how to get to edit mode so I can add myself ! !!

I'd loooove to meet.

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13 Dec 2008, 9:12 am

Warsie wrote:

ephemerella wrote:

and it's confusing to get around, and everything seems to be a mission. An open landscape and simple layout is to a town is much more appealing to me.

Uh, the actual D.C. city and alexandria, VA is designed that way. You must be referring to the rest of the suburban sprawl around D.C. and Baltimore.

Yes, I am. In addition to the gridded layout of DC proper and Alexandria, the Greater Metro DC area's radial arteries are built around what were historically horse or carriage trails and also concentrated to get over the bridges.

I get disoriented very easily and usually get lost the first time I try to go to a place, so while it's easy to get to 1600 K St NW from 700 H St NW, getting from, say Hyattsville, MD to 1600 K St can get me lost, even if I print out a lot of maps and plot a route. I usually have to have 3 kinds of orienteering materials to get into a new place in DC and not get lost the first time: a sequence-of-turns-and-exits list like Google directions, a map and verbal directions (e.g. "if you go past the Verizon center you've gone too far").

I am getting to the point where I've been over every artery in and out of DC at least once and some several times. So it's getting a little better. I think the shift between layout types was part of the disorientation.

I do want to go to the Inauguration, so I will probably go in then.

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13 Dec 2008, 9:38 am

Added myself to the old one. Not many people from England on there though.

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13 Dec 2008, 2:28 pm

Greentea wrote:

tell me how to get to edit mode

If you're talking about the new one, you need to register with Google Maps to use it. Look at the starting post herein for instructions.

If you're talking about the old Frappr map, see my third post herein. It's glitchy. I don't know why it works for me sometimes and not others.

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13 Dec 2008, 2:52 pm

I mean the new map. I'm a member of Google maps, but I don't get the Edit button, don't know why.

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