Giant Map of Washington

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'.

Comments

Kenny O'Donnell said…
People in the Lochranza area should be very worried...Merry Christmas, Alan, enjoy your holidays :-)
Alan Parkinson said…
They've got the Arran Distillery to dispense calming spirit though...

Merry Christmas Kenny !