Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks (42 page)

197
1,157 caches in a single day:
Steve O’Gara, “New World Record—1157 Geocache Finds in 24 Hours,” Groundspeak forums, Oct. 2, 2010,
http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=261055
.

201
“OK, OK”:
“Giving Up . . .” GPSStash list, Yahoo! Groups, message 2040, Jun. 17, 2001.

202
“Viajero Perdido”:
“Primero de Nicaragua,” cache GCH30B,
www.geocaching.com
. His geohandle means, quite appropriately, “lost traveler.”

202
“Hukilaulau,” from Long Island:
“Geocaching Level of Addiction, What’s Yours?,” Geocaching Topics forum, June 23, 2008, forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtoic=196941. In the same thread, he confesses that when he spends too much time online looking at geo-caches, he appeases his wife by telling her he’s looking at porn.

205
“the worst has happened”:
Apsley Cherry-Garrard,
The Worst Journey in the World
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 1922/1965), p. 525.

207
“I can imagine no more”:
Niall Ferguson,
Empire: The Rise and Demise of British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power
(New York: Basic Books, 2003),
p. 200
.

207
Serbian geographer Jovan Cvijiō:
Vincent Virga,
Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations
(New York: Little, Brown, 2007),
p. 153
.

208
“I don’t do anything”:
Charles Hoskinson, “GPS Receivers Add Twist to Hide and Seek,”
The Washington Times,
Nov. 7, 2004.

208
“I started to miss”:
Geocache,
directed by David Liban, 2007,
www .geofilm.net
.

208
“Was out enjoying”:
“Sugar’s Compost Pile,” cache GC229E8,
www.geocaching.com
.

CHAPTER 11: FRONTIER

212
“Our age today”:
Quoted in John Noble Wilford,
The Mapmakers
(New York: Vintage, 2000),
p. 112
.

212
“Mein Herr”:
Lewis Carroll,
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded
(London: Macmillan, 1893),
p. 169
.

212
1982 essay:
Umberto Eco, “On the Impossibility of Drawing a Map of the Empire on a Scale of 1 to 1,” in
How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays
(Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, 1994),
p. 95
.

216
twenty terabytes or so:
Stewart Brand,
The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility
(New York: Basic Books, 1999),
p. 87
.

217
George Armstrong Custer:
Jeffry D. Wert,
Custer
(New York: Touchstone, 1996),
p. 50
.

217
drop film packets:
Nicholas M. Short,
The Remote Sensing Tutorial
(Washington, D.C.: Federation of American Scientists, 2001),
http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Intro/Part2_26e.html
.

218
a military incursion:
Daniel Hernandez, “Tensions High Between Nicaragua, Costa Rica in Border Dispute,”
Los Angeles Times,
Nov. 19, 2010.

218
“McDonaldization” of cartography:
Martin Dodge and Chris Perkins, “Reclaiming the Map: British Geography and Ambivalent Cartographic Practice,”
Environment and Planning A
40, no. 6 (June 2008), pp. 1271–1276.

219
briefly given Chinese names:
“Google Admits ‘Mistake’ of Wrong Depiction of Arunachal,”
The Times of India,
Aug. 8, 2009.

220
Meteor-impact craters:
Richard Macey, “Opal Miner Stumbles on Mega Meteorite Crater,”
The Sydney Morning Herald,
Nov. 23, 2008.

220
a Roman villa in Parma:
“Internet Maps Reveal Roman Villa,” BBC News, Sept. 21, 2005.

220
a lost Amazonian city:
Ed Caesar, “Google Earth Helps Find El Dorado,”
The Sunday Times,
Jan. 10, 2010.

220
a remote forest in Mozambique:
Louise Gray, “Scientists Discover New Forest with Undiscovered Species on Google Earth,”
The Daily Telegraph,
Dec. 21, 2008.

220
the so-called forest swastika:
“German Forest Loses Swastika,” BBC News, Dec. 4, 2000.

220
eight thousand grazing cattle:
Thomas H. Maugh II, “Tip Them Over and They Still Point North,”
Los Angeles Times,
Aug. 26, 2008.

221
Greenland is oversized fourteenfold:
Ralph E. Ehrenberg,
Mapping the World: An Illustrated History of Cartography
(Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2006),
p. 111
.

222
nearly all made Europe too big:
Thomas F. Saarinen, Michael Parton, and Roy Billberg, “Relative Size of Continents on World Sketch Maps,”
Cartographica
33, no. 2 (Summer 1996),
pp. 37
–48.

222
“wet, ragged long winter underwear”:
“Arno Peters and His New Geography,”
American Cartographer
12 (1985),
pp. 103
–111.

223
West Lancashire town of Argleton:
Rebecca Lefort, “Mystery of Argleton, the ‘Google’ Town That Only Exists Online,”
The Daily Telegraph,
Oct. 31, 2009.

224
Goblu and Beatosu, Ohio:
Mark Monmonier,
How to Lie with Maps,
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996),
p. 50
.

227
a report on Page’s private life:
“Google Executive,” National Legal and Policy Center, Jun. 30, 2008,
www.nlpc.org/pdfs/googleexecutive.pdf
.

227
“we live in”:
John Sellers, “Wayne Coyne Confirms Google Street View Sighting,” True/Slant, Feb. 5, 2010,
http://trueslant.com/johnsellers/2010/02/05/wayne-coyne-flaming-lips-confirms-google-street-view-sighting/
.

227
“geoslavery”:
Jerome Dobson and Peter Fisher, “Geoslavery,”
IEEE Technology and Society Magazine
22, no. 1 (Spring 2003),
pp. 47
–52.

229
thousands of amateur mappers:
Amy Davidson, “A Map of Thousands,”
The New Yorker,
“Close Read” blog, Feb. 24, 2010,
www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2010/02/a-map-of-thousands.html
.

229
“Many thanks”:
Google Groups, “CrisisMappers,” Feb. 4, 2010,
http:// groups.google.com/group/crisismappers/msg/54a9be63091dbab9
.

232
an unnamed Swedish couple:
“Swedish Tourists Miss Island Due to GPS Typo,”
Seattle Times,
July 28, 2009.

233
“Society is geared”:
Alex Hutchinson, “Global Impositioning Systems,”
The Walrus,
Nov. 2009,
pp. 67
–71.

234
sales collapsed by 83 percent:
Richard Melcher, “Dusting Off the
Britannica,
”
BusinessWeek,
Oct. 20, 1997,
pp. 143
–146.

235
William Rand saved the day:
Richard Cahan,
Chicago: Rising from the Prairie
(Carlsbad, Calif.: Heritage Media, 2000), p. 323.

235
zoom chunkily in fixed increments:
In 2010, about a year after I spoke with Minster (and just months after he left the company), Rand McNally did finally upgrade the map interface on its site.

CHAPTER 12: RELIEF

237
“We shall not cease”:
T. S. Eliot, “Little Gidding,”
Collected Poems, 1909– 1962
(New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991),
p. 208
.

238
“We kept expecting”:
“43°N 72°W (visit #1),” Degree Confluence Project, Feb. 20, 1996,
http://confluence.org/confluence.php?visitid=1
.

238
16,340 “confluence points” worldwide:
“Frequently Asked Questions,” Degree Confluence Project,
http://confluence.org/faq.php
.

238
Confluence hunters have dutifully braved:
Joseph Kerski, “To the Nth Degree . . . and Minute, and Second: Confluence Hunting on Planet Earth,” Earthzine, Dec. 8, 2009,
www.earthzine.org/2009/12/08/to-the-nth-degree%E2%80%A6and-minute-and-second-confluence-hunting-on-planet-earth/
.

240
the “Earth sandwich”:
“If the Earth Were a Sandwich,”
www.zefrank.com/sandwich/
.

242
the shape of a rabbit’s ears:
Robert Sandall, “Bill Drummond: Pop’s Prankster Heads for Destruction,”
The Daily Telegraph,
Aug. 19, 2008.

242
the “Crystal Day” festival:
Chris Adams,
Turquoise Days: The Weird World of Echo & the Bunnymen
(New York: Soft Skull Press, 2002),
p. 153
.

243
the last river and the last mountain range:
Bradford J. Frye,
From Barrier to Crossroads: An Administrative History of Capitol Reef National Park, Utah,
National Park Service,
www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/care/adhi/adhi3.htm
.

INDEX

Page numbers in italics indicate illustrations.

Adams, John,
5

aerial photogrammetry,
217
,
220

Afghanistan, maps of,
60

Alexander the Great, crying like a little girl,
242

Ali G Show, Da,
36
,
37

allegorical maps,
26
–28,
27

America, naming of,
75
–77,
76

Amundsen, Roald,
205

Anian, Strait of,
83

animal wayfinding,
21
–25,
220

Ankrom, Richard,
171
–
72

antipodes,
240
–242,
241

ants,
23
–24

Apollo
program,
59

Arafat, Yasir, cartographic headwear of,
6

Argleton, England,
224

Arrested Development,
37

art, maps and,
99
–100,
110