Where am I? Where do I want to go?
I have a new on-line toy. If you haven't seen Biogeomancer, try it! You can search for any place name in the world and get the it mapped on a Google map, and get the latitude and longitude coordinates too. Amazing, I just found out there is only one 'ärla' place in the whole world. A place I know very well. And 'Vattungarna', which means 'the small water islands' or something like that, occurs in three places, all in the Baltic archipelago, twice in Sweden and once in Finland. It is one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.
You can zoom around, move the map, check it mapped on satellite or as a topographic map and find new names of places that you have never heard of before such as (in Swedish): Inre Håkansskär, Tjockö, Velen, and Flaten. For you English-speaking, how about these (from United Kingdom): West Ella, Horkstow, Scunthorpe, and Swinhope. Happy geography hunting!
4 comments:
i guess I'm doing something wrong...I can't type in the search field
Type in the field on the website, then click Georeference. Try it! It works for me.
There is quite a lot of nice places to visit on the map in our corner of the world: Appleby, Saxby, Bigby, Kettleby. And what about Fordon - quite a funny name for a Sweden (means vehicle in Swedish).
One day we will come and visit and you can show us all these places, Olle!
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