Buddycloud

The Google Maps product really is amazing. I'm not sure if it taps into some latent voyeuristic instinct or whether it's like travelling without the security lines and lack of legroom, but I love browsing places that I remember. I find it very interesting to look up places of my childhood and compare their real shapes with my memories of them. The mind has a way of collapsing the non-interesting places in between the places one used to visit often.

This evening I found myself browsing Hilton College in South Africa. This was my High School which, although out in the middle of nowhere has finally been mapped by Google to a decent resolution. I'm sure not much has changed, except that everything looks smaller and a couple of the buildings are not where I remember them.

This is one of the reasons that we use place names in Buddycloud, rather than trying to put people on maps. Maps confuse because they don't match with our memory of a place and the proportions are "wrong".