Monday, October 10, 2011

the internet--part 1--satellite maps

     The internet is a wonder. It may someday do what some people thought television would do--teach everyone.While we're working our way up to that, there seems to be a large set of people who believe the world was created the day the internet was first switched on.  Many of them don't seem to understand that the real world, and the print world, are merely accessible through the medium of the internet. I watched a video on maps the other day. A person starting out with the idea that maps were created when satellites sent the first images back from space would have been left at the end of the video with the same impression. So I had to wonder--have the satellite images done much "correcting" of the maps made the old-fashioned way?

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