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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.""
Before we get a swag of comments mentioning errors / omissions in the map - I read the following from the article:
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"Due to the many inconsistencies among episodes, the map will never be completely accurate. Although we'd like our map to be as accurate as a map to any imaginary place can be, our main intent is to preserve the comic spirit of Springfield, document its unique identity, and to have some fun at the same time."
IMO they did a great job! (although wasn't the Simpson's house in eyeshot of
Doing a map of new new york from futurama?
Can we give these guys some sort of award? Slashdot Medal of Honor or something? That's an impressive amount of nerdness, right there.
I fail to see how you could possibly find nearly anything on
the town was moved when it got full of garbage so that can account for SOME of it.
Even before that, across the street from their place are sometimes normal houses llike theirs, sometimes the mansion former presidents Bush and Ford lived in, sometimes an empty field leading to the highway, etc.
Hell, even Flander's house isn't stable, in the Stonecutters ep it was the nuclear plant's parking lot.
The Kwicky Mart moves around a lot too.
Like Homer said: "Cartoons don't have to make sense".
You can't take the sky from me...
a) Too large
b) Very rarely do we see them actually travel in the city
c) No relation to Old New York, it's all buried below. Anything could be placed anywhere
Not that it'd stop anyone with too much time on their hands, like people replying to this article, like you, and me, heh.
Kjella
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CmdrTaco knows that to improve slashcode that last thing he should do is cruft together a further mess. The way for slashcode to get better is to leave things to pudge. (although pudge seems to prefer to spend his time as a political news writer than hacking code.)
What I've always thought would be the easiest way of checking for Dups is to compare the URLs in an article to the URLs in previous articles. (ignoring ones that point to the main site index pages like http://www.nytimes.com/) The the URL has been used, warn that it might be a dup and show the editor the previous version.
Well, as we saw in "Trash of the Titans" (episode 9.22), Springfield's Plan B for dealing with emergencies is to move the whole town 5 miles down the road. Given how many crises seem to pop up there, it's not unreasonable to assume that they've invoked Plan B on a number of occasions.
You read the article. You get pissed. You get a little adrenelin rush writing your snarky post. The replies validate your views, and validate you as a person.
And your addiction to slashdot grows.
Slashdot wouldn't be nearly as addicting (and hence not as popular) if it were the type of site you think want. If you care so much, go read the New York Times technical section or something. If you get sick of the well written "real news", I bet we see you back here, making another snarky post.
The only thing I don't like about current episodes are all the gratuitous celebrity cameos. That's one thing the early episodes got right (have the celebrities play someone besides themselves).
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."