Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Map of the Week-Take the Long Way Home

Today is Day 90 of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Torch Relay. It's a long way from Victoria to Vancouver. You could just take the ferry but that's no fun! This route takes 106 days and goes through every province, territory and major city in Canada.



The Vancouver 2010 Olympic web site has an interactive map where you can see the route details and link to events, photos and stories. The route looks more like a child's connect the dots drawing than a map but cartographic accuracy is not their first priority. Here is today's route through British Columbia from Revelstoke to Salmon Arm and then on to Kamloops.



Clicking the red dot at Kamloops brings up a detailed map showing this evening's route and festivities. The detailed maps also feature cartographic accuracy!


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

It was certainly interesting for me to read the article. Thanks the author for it. I like such topics and anything connected to this matter. BTW, why don't you change design :).

Dug said...

Not sure if you mean the design of the Olympic Torch maps or this blog. Maybe someday I'll have time to do both.

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