Home, Home on the Wayfare...

There appears to be a plethora of new mapping mashups. It does appear to be the new combo technology to use satelite maps coombiined with map maps and various other new technologies to make it possible to "wiki" mapping. What would old world cartographers have to say about this? How do you suppose Christopher Columbus might have approached the Queen of Spain to finance his trip to the unknown new world if he had "Wayfaring" at his disposal? Wow. Queen Isabella would have been mighty impressed. For those of us int he "new world" however, it's lovely to go home, home on the wayfaring. The limitation is the availability of satelite maps of the area. Since I'm from a small town in West Virginia, there's little available. Too bad. And, now I live in a small town in Vermont. Again, not much available. The problem here is that all those cosmopolitan areas already have tons of points of interest available on all sorts of regular maps. Those small towns are the onew who could use it.

For educational purposes, the new map technologies present some pretty fabulous opportunities to get students excited about geography and history. I can definitely see applications for all sorts of education. How about touring around the parts of the world from which famous literature or art has originated? Fabulous. Maybe the post should have been called "Art, Art on the Wayfare...".