Cryptonomicon and Openstreetmap
Friday, October 23rd, 2009Recently 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
