Mapping AtD
Paul Mackin
mackin.paul at verizon.net
Tue Jul 10 15:50:33 CDT 2012
On 7/10/2012 1:48 PM, Matthew Cissell wrote:
> It has occurred to me that it might be interesting to have a map for AtD, one that showed time and place. The more I began to think about it the more I realized that it exceded my technical know-how. Any ideas? Is there some software available that allows you to make a map, so to speak? (Obviously it would have to be a map from the fin de siecle period.) The novel has so much movement in it that it would be interesting to see characters tracked through space and time (the old type, not this quantum s/t).
One interesting thing to do is to plug AtD place names into Google
Maps. As you zoom in you get a pretty close up of how things look
today. Just plugged in Kashgar, where Kit I believe finds Auberon
Halfcourt. Google hasn't actually run a Googlemobile through all the
streets, as in many other cities of the world, but you do see the
buildings from a low altitude. Also, with the places-nearby feature,
you get many excellent pictures of local structures, many looking like
they might have been there in Kit's day.
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> cheers
> mc
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