They Tell Stories
Charles Cumming's The 21 Steps supports my thesis that not only is one location not enough to tell a story, one narrative or analytical chunk is not enough to tell a story. Entries and placemarks are cheap: break that story up and serialize it.
Via O'Reilly Radar.
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Re: They Tell Stories
Author: Matt Priour
Google's LatLong Blog caught this and Andrew Turner suggested the "Choose Your Own Adventure" model would be an improvement over an already very intreguing idea. Personally, I was impressed at how the map interactions really added a great deal of anticipation, sense of urgency, and understanding of space & effort. The story itself without the map would be rather forgetable, however with it the story becomes alive and worth another read or two.