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Obsessively Detailed Map Of Springfield
An anonymous reader writes "With all these stories going around about governments' abilities to pinpoint our location via various means, it's quite surprising that one group of people have avoided them for so long. That dastardly family, The Simpsons, have been hidden in Springfield for far too long. Which brings us to the following obsessively detailed map of Springfield. From Jerry Lerma and Terry Hogan: "The mapping of Springfield began in the Spring of 2001 when we realized that no adequate map of Springfield existed either online or in print.""
Who knew they were interested in that kind of stuff
I'm not a troll, but I play one on Slashdot
One quick search could have prevented the repeat goodness...
f ie ld&author=&sort=1&op=stories
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?tid=&query=spring
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I emailed the editors to tell 'em it was a dupe, but I guess I wass too late. The original story had better info.
They beat Slashdot by about three months. That is, for the first time around...
well remember the town was moved when it got full of garbage so that can account for SOME of it.
I would wager any criticism of the Simpsons on /. get's you troll modded regardless of post content. Feel free to test on your own.
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Minus the Simpsons, Moes, etc (but *with* the nuclear
... and in 1986 at least it was one of the few places in England where the familiar "bobby" (policeman) carries serious fire power.
plant!). Springfields (or is it Spring Fields) in
Northern England (just outside Preston). They make
nuclear fuel rods.
(At least they did when I visited to do some consultancy work c.a. 1986).
Interesting place. Particularly the signs with "Danger! you are now entering a criticality evacuation area" , and the constant beep bop
of the alarm. You're supposed to panic if it changes from beep bop to god knows what...
That would be the Springfield Googolplex cinema, which existed well before Google.com :-)
It's scary that I knew that.
123 fake street is on the waterfront between Bart's Demolished Factory and Fake Vomit Inc, off Industrial Way.
I just spent a half an hour trying to find Moe's...
:)
For those interested, it's in between 'Springfild Town Hall' and 'Springfild Junior High School'.
No, they don't. They tell you where the actors playing "The Simpsons" live, but not where the show takes place. Let's see what SNPP has to say about it:
In the first airing of [BABF19], "Behind The Laughter", the narrator gave Springfield's location as Northern Kentucky. For the second and later airings, this changed to Southern Missouri. Neither of these are admissible locations for Springfield, for the many reasons listed later in this document.
What's the explanation? This episode is not canon. It portrays the show not as a cartoon created by Matt Groening, but as a live-action sitcom originally written by Homer and starring his own family. None of what happens is part of the main Simpsons continuity... just like any Halloween Special.
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The PS2 has 2 games now that are fairly detailed: "Crash & Burn" and "Hit & Run." While the maps are not the most accurate, perhaps, they are still immense in their scope and accuracy of detail. (at least in terms of buildings that have been featured in the show).
They already have a GTA-like Simpsons game - Hit and Run. Supposedly the Springfield in the game was completely accurate.
Anyone remember the last time we posted this link? :P
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/27/121423 1
There is a great Simpsons map for Wolfenstein ET. It's not as complete or as detailed as the map here, but it's still pretty cool to be running around through the Simpson house, armed to the teeth!
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