Pondering Pig
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Spokane WA
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« on: April 16, 2007, 11:07:07 AM » |
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Have you checked out the new 'My Maps' tab on Google Maps? It's raining hard in the Northeast today and I've been entertaining myself indoors by creating a My Maps showing the global locations of each of my entrepreneurs, plus a mini-profile of each one. It turned out to be a great geography lesson and also a look into the four fifths of the world most of us know little about. I used Wikipedia for most of the info except for the tiny little villages I had to hunt down elsewhere. Anyway, here's the link in case you'd like a look at how I did it: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?om=1&ie=UTF8&f=q&q=Haiti&hl=en&layer=&oe=UTF-8&z=2&msid=109293797378543653558.00000111eb3843a4e0af8&msa=0 |
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Christopher
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« Reply To This #2 on: April 16, 2007, 01:44:57 PM » |
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That is a great use of My Maps, I like the way you are able to click on each item on the list on the left hand side and be taken to the pin. I think it would be great if Kiva could include some latitude and longitude location for each person - like you, once I had plotted where the businesses I had loaned to, it gives me a really good alternative world perspective. I have previously used a map on my blog page ( http://cjw.me.uk/?page_id=94), I am now tempted to change. Superb. |
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Pondering Pig
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« Reply To This #4 on: April 18, 2007, 02:00:16 PM » |
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One thing I like about using Google Maps is that you can actually pinpoint the city, town, or village where your entrepreneur lives and works. Theoretically at least, if you knew it, you could mark the actual kiosk in the marketplace they work from. To me, that's to coolest thing about My Maps.
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Pondering Pig
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« Reply To This #6 on: April 19, 2007, 08:51:29 AM » |
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Looking good, Ramon. I liked zooming in on Guayaquil to see all your entrepreneurs there. The city itself looks beautiful from high up with that river glistening and all the fields surrounding it.
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KyleMac
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« Reply To This #7 on: May 16, 2007, 10:59:32 PM » |
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That's great! I'm starting on mine now.
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"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can." --John Wesley
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cdcart
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« Reply To This #8 on: June 04, 2007, 09:44:36 AM » |
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Surprised at the lack of detail on google maps for some of the regions of the world.
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qwiksilver
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« Reply To This #9 on: June 04, 2007, 02:29:15 PM » |
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Although I enjoy seeing the wealth and happiness spreading around the world, one caveat:
In a place where there is civil war, like Iraq. Where a person might be harrassed for taking western aid or where a woman's life is more circumscribed, you might not want to map that person for their safety. Women in certain Middle Eastern countries are taking their lives in their hands just getting the loan. Having a well meaning person from the west give out their whereabouts might put them at further risk.
I'm going to make a map of my people, but only on my home computer using Google Earth for my own use.
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