Cryptonomicon and Openstreetmap
Recently finished reading Cryptonomicon.
“For the first couple of weeks he spent in Manila, his work consisted of walking. He walked all over the city carrying a handheld GPS receiver, taking down latitudes and longitudes”. p89
“This time it’s a detailed rendering of the cityscape of Manila…he gathered the data for the damn thing by walking around town with his GPS receiver”. p103
“Depth could be obtained by putting a green light on the head of every person in London and then recording their tracings for a few nights…One day a person would walk out…carrying a highly accurate street map of London, reconstructed from the information”. p117-118
Tags: cryptonomicon, openstreetmap
