Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Making Maps of Kentucky

For any map geeks out there, this looks like a lot of fun.

1 comment:

  1. my mind is racing with the possibilities here.

    so, off and on, i've continued to think about this semi-pro basketball league with teams representing each of kentucky's 120 counties. to work out in tidy fashion, it would probably need to be 128 teams--maybe jefferson county would have four teams, fayette three and the next three most populous counties two each. something like that.

    anyway, what would be cool is if this league would start in the 1930s or '40s or whenever kentucky's current lineup of counties was finalized. and it would use real players. and the results would be determined by, one, some type of cool computer game and, two, subjective evaluation of comments sent in at a message board during a pre-determined and publicized two-hour time slot.

    so, for example, at 1 p.m. today, you might have calloway county playing marshall county. the computer game would play the matchup gradually from 1 to 3 p.m., but what happened would somehow be nudged by the comments of the posters. let's say calloway's power forward comes out and scores 10 points in the first 10 minutes; some marshall fan gets on and posts that that guy could never score that much against marshall's power forward. so the calloway dude's scoring would tail off.

    well, anyway, this league lends itself to the map-maker utility.

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