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Obsessively Detailed Map Of Springfield

Posted by timothy on from the forbidden-satellite-imagery dept.

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.""

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  1. Why bother when... by lxt · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...the writers themselves have said on the DVD commentaries that although in the first few seasons a concious effort was made to keep geography accurate, after that they found it easier (and funnier) just to mess about with it, meaning the Simpsons' house is in many places (next to moes, next to the power plant, etc.).

  2. This ROCKS. by DrStrangeLug · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Seriously, I love it. Yes, I understand that you can never have an accurate map of Springfield (there are contradictions across episodes) but this is about as good as you can get. BTW, wasn't the Michael Jackson Expressway (formerly the Dali Lama expressway) renamed to the Matlock Expressway ?

  3. hey.... by Spatula+Sam · · Score: 5, Interesting

    there's no Flanders' house! What gives?

  4. Re:I'm sorry. So what? by Kokuyo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Even though you have a troll rating at the moment I write this I'd like to answer this question because I think it isn't trolling what you're doing... just a bit of missing the point ;).

    The Simpsons are funny if you are the kind of person to understand and like the jokes. You don't have to like them. But others do for the humor, for the political and social critics na dfor many more reasons. Sure, it's fictional. But what is not ficitonal in one or another way today? The Simpsons bring fans together and make them DO something together.
    So you can define this work as a way to waste your time or you can see it as a way to honor a piece of work that has brought and continues to bring people together.

    That is the reason why I think this project is plain cool.

  5. Re:But in episode... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    although wasn't the Simpson's house in eyeshot of ...

    The nuke plant.
    The Springfield brdige.
    Kwik-E-Mart ...
  6. MMORPG? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Am I the only one that thinks that now that a full map of Springfield is out there its only a matter of time before someone capitalizes and makes a Simpsons MMORPG. All of Springfield could be rendered 100% accurately now. Woo-wee!

    1. Re:MMORPG? by ConceptJunkie · · Score: 5, Interesting

      At the very least, someone could take an engine like CrystalSpace and make a Virtual Springfield, like the non-3D game that came out several years ago. The game was cool, but was too limited, and as a non-3D environment, it used animations to render travelling from point to point rather than doing it on the fly. Using a 3D engine would be far better, like the Simpsons Hit and Run levels on steroids.

      Perhaps a collaborative project where people can submit locations on the map which are compiled together in a single environment. I'd do it, but I'm just a grandiose idea guy. ;-)

      --
      You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
  7. Re:old! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    which always makes me wonder.

    Why has taco not touched slashcode to make real improvements for almost 5 years?

    a simple modification to make the editor's side of the system to require a pull up query of all stories based on keywords in the headline would kill 90% of the dupes.

    I know that slashdot is and never has claimed to be a journalism site, but the amount of dupes is getting way out of hand.

    how about no ONE editor can publish a story but requires a second editor to approve the first approval?