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Toy of the Day
May. 30th, 2006 02:50 pmThanks to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dauphin1974 for this pointer to Wikimapia. It's essentially Google Earth with a wiki attached to it -- you can define regions on the "world", and wiki entries for those regions. He recommends (and I concur) drilling down to Cambridge, and looking around; I see that the Harvard crowd has already defined a bunch of the buildings and stuff there. Unfortunately, the search function doesn't seem to work correctly yet. But it's still fun to play with.
One of those Toys Whose Time Has Come...
dauphin1974 for this pointer to Wikimapia. It's essentially Google Earth with a wiki attached to it -- you can define regions on the "world", and wiki entries for those regions. He recommends (and I concur) drilling down to Cambridge, and looking around; I see that the Harvard crowd has already defined a bunch of the buildings and stuff there. Unfortunately, the search function doesn't seem to work correctly yet. But it's still fun to play with.One of those Toys Whose Time Has Come...