1196 – Google Maps & strange places

There’s this chap in the States, he looks for strange things on Google Maps, which could be anything from strange coloured round things laid in a straight line, through ancient rock formations and ancient buildings, he’ll then go and visit them and film the visit. These do make interesting videos.

I think it would be quite interesting to do something similar here, but there is a slight issue of scale, comparing the sizes of the countries; The UK is roughly 95,000 square miles. The USA is roughly 40 times bigger at just under 4 million square miles (around 3.8 million mi^2), here’s a link to his youtube channel; https://www.youtube.com/@TheTrekPlanner

Not only that, think about population density; now this is an average, and clearly there is a lot of variation, but still it averages out to around 93 per square mile for the USA and 700 per square mile in the UK. The kind of bottom line of this is there is a lot less spare space in the UK. There are much less likely to be any undiscovered things in the UK.

Notice I say undiscovered as opposed to interesting. Now, I acknowledge what you may find interesting will be different to me. To which, I’m likely to say that if I were to make videos about what I find interesting then people may not watch them. Which would be sad.

Just a quick note – I missed a posting last night. Annoying, my post count had reached 41. Oh well. Let’s start again.

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