President Obama's Inauguration
A giant map is being used to prepare the security services for the event on January 20th. I read one report which suggests that an expected crowd of 4 million people will gather in a city which has a population of around half a million. To visualise the scale of the preparations, a giant map has been produced complete with buildings.
The excellent PRUNED blog has a post which provides lots of detail (and images) on this, as do various other familiar blogs.
One blog had a nice comment from Archie Delaney, which summed up the "retro" feel:
So much for the internet, the computer, and online mapping. At the end of the day, the boots on the ground want a map they can stand on.
Speaking of which, if you come to the GA Conference, you'll be able to see the excellent MAP OF SCOTLAND, which I saw up at the SAGT Conference in October.
MAPLAND SCOTLAND won an award in the non-book category. The GA won 2 book awards at SAGT: one of them for the Teacher's Toolkit, and one for 'Caring for our World'.
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