Sky High: GeoURL

Posted on July 20, 2003 in Site News The Orange

Kathryn Cramer finds neat stuff. Following her lead, I signed on with GeoURL, a program that maps where people live and lets you see who your meatspace neighbors are:

Another tool that I found through GeoURL was the Acme Mapper, which allows you to pinpoint your house as I did here:

The aerial photo fairly represents my neighborhood as screaming suburbia, a place of stucco pressed right to the edge of asphalt, where individuality is denied on the exteriors, but fervently expressed inside: rather like a lot of Greek villages that I’ve visited.

Portola Hills: my island in the sky.