Digital Thumb Tacks

I have always loved maps.  I guess we all do.  Maps are unique documents.  They can show us where we have been and where are going all at once.

Here is the modern day version of the thumbtack in the wall map.  Jack Yan passes on a point that allows each of us to create an instant map of everywhere we have been in the world and in the United States as well.  Here are what my maps look like.  I have some places I need to go.

Thanks also to Ben Casnocha, Daniel Drezner and Daniel Nexon who were in the chain on this before Jack. 

Comments

[Jack Yan]

Wow, that’s a mighty impressive coverage of the United States. I know it’s your home country, but it took me 25 years after emigrating before I visited the South Island of New Zealand.

[Mike Swenson]

I've been lucky to have a career that has allowed me to travel. I need to get to the Northwest USA and of course I need to get to your corner of the world someday.