Juan Taylor is back with a twist on his earlier 7 Wonders of the world Google Maps Mashup. This time he has created a Google Map for each of the 50 US states showing their 7 "wonders". Juan has also created a map which shows the 7 wonders for the USA (countrywide) as well. These 7 include the Golden Gate Bridge, Times Square, Statue of Liberty, Walt Disney World, Lincoln Memorial, Grand Canyon and the Gateway Arch. This list may be considered subjective since I'm not sure if Juan is taking these places from a definitive list (if one even exists?) Regardless this mashup will show you highlights for each state and perhaps even a list of places for you to visit if you're visiting! Use the handy links to Wikipedia entries that Juan has linked off to and click zoom below each entry to use the Google Maps satellite imagery to explore each of these places. This is fun to explore, and teachers might even consider using this for a geography or history lesson..
Summary of "7 Wonders" mashup links:
8 comments:
I just checked NY State, and it seems odd that all but one of the "7 Wonders" are located in NYC. I think that the source fr this information is suspect.
Ummm...has this site been checked for IE 6? I get Javascript errors on every page.
I completely agree with the previous comment. Not only purely subjective, but poorly researched. Washington State lists "Seattle Underground" (a commercial tourism outlet) and "Microsoft Campus". The Microsoft Campus? Seriously? And yet, this list doesn't mention Mount Saint Helens (site of the deadliest volcano eruption in US history, and most active one in the continental US) or Grand Coulee Dam (the largest concrete structure of any kind in the US).
I thought this would be a great way to rank how much I've seen in the many states to which I've travelled, but clearly not so.
A decent mashup idea, but needs much better data.
You can see my two cents worth at http://mapcrunch.blogspot.com.
Not to be harsh, but are these maps even worth mentioning?
I am the Creator of the 7 Wonders USA map. It's quite amazing to me that there was a problem in IE, characters/encoding. I assumed since the 7 wonders worked the ones for the USA would work as well. Then "anonymous" was the first person who tipped me off to it. I'm debugging them one at a time.
Subjective? To an extent, but there are many things that are important to each state. There's a degree of error. And yet there are definitive things out there to make it valuable. The margin of error won't be as great as you think, in other words.
Also I can refine things step by step based on comments I get, etc. 7 Wonders will always have some realm of subjectivity of course.
Sure Juan, that makes sense. But there is already a vast amount of information available for each state's unique "wonders."
I'm not from Washington, Maryland actually, and to me to include the "Microsoft Campus" and not Mt. St. Helens tells me there's something wrong with the person compiling this list, most likely the compiler isn't a very knowledgeable person.
Sure Juan, that makes sense. But there is already a vast amount of information available for each state's unique "wonders." I'm pretty sure the subjectiveness has already been worked out and agreed upon mostly.
I'm not from Washington, Maryland actually, and to me to include the "Microsoft Campus" and not Mt. St. Helens tells me there's something wrong with the person compiling this list, most likely the compiler isn't a very knowledgeable person.
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