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Sep 10th, 2009, 01:17 PM
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Back from Thailand and will post some thoughts later...
BUT.. I can not stop myself from showing this link, where The Travel Channel's Anthony Bourdain is using a version of Google Earth to help people find locations.
Really, is this not easier than whatever method we used to use?
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en...f0a0d946d&z=10
CHECK OUT: MAP OF THAILAND:
http://www.travelchannel.com/TV_Show...vgnextfmt=show
BUT.. I can not stop myself from showing this link, where The Travel Channel's Anthony Bourdain is using a version of Google Earth to help people find locations.
Really, is this not easier than whatever method we used to use?
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en...f0a0d946d&z=10
CHECK OUT: MAP OF THAILAND:
http://www.travelchannel.com/TV_Show...vgnextfmt=show
Sep 10th, 2009, 01:30 PM
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I look forward to hearing about your trip to Thailand.
I do like that Bourdain pinpoints the locations of the places he ate (although I can't say the places he ate excite me much). But using google earth to get around Bangkok? Not useful for me, but if it is useful for you, that's great.
I do like that Bourdain pinpoints the locations of the places he ate (although I can't say the places he ate excite me much). But using google earth to get around Bangkok? Not useful for me, but if it is useful for you, that's great.
Sep 10th, 2009, 02:30 PM
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Bingo.. The GE thingy does not help you "get around", that is not the feature, it is used as a planning tool.
When you (anybody) reads about or sees a photo of a location they’d like to visit what do you do with the address? Scour a map? Hope that the guide book lists the location on one of the maps?
Really, what other choice is there? What is your technique for locating a new place?
I like to click on a link and have the location show up on a perfect street map, even a map that I can see a satellite photo. Although the photo (Street View) does produce some mixed emotions, like taking the surprise out of seeing the location for the first time.
As you said, it's not for you and many others here agree, but we can’t deny that GE mapping is becoming popular on the many websites that are using the feature.
For example: We did not know about Jok Prince (Remember, Khao Mu Daeng and how we like pig?) even though we walked around Yaowarat Road for two days.
With the help of the Travel Channel map, we located Jok Prince in seconds. Try that using "Jok Prince" and Google search - Ouch!
We never had a less than delicious meal in Thailand. Ninety-ninety percent of our meal were street food, but our first day in Bangkok we ended up in a small bar around the old Sam Yan Market.
The Khao Mu Daeng places we had been trying to get to had closed up and we were about to pass out from the heat. We were starving, it was too hot to keep moving and this bar was the only place nearby that had air conditioning.
Bangkok is really hot in the summer. You’d be hard pressed to find locals walking around mid day.
I only eat vegetables (I do like the Khao Mu Daeng sauce, cucumbers and rice) and this place was a local bar with a Thai language menu and zero English spoken.
No problem. The “mother” of the bar, went upstairs to cook noodles “spaghetti” using ketchup and I was too tired to say no.
Now, while the meal was not the best Thailand could offer, the dish was perfectly prepared, had lots of flavor and although “interesting” it was pretty tasty.
Maybe the above story speaks more to the cooking skills of Thai people and their overwhelming hospitality.
When you (anybody) reads about or sees a photo of a location they’d like to visit what do you do with the address? Scour a map? Hope that the guide book lists the location on one of the maps?
Really, what other choice is there? What is your technique for locating a new place?
I like to click on a link and have the location show up on a perfect street map, even a map that I can see a satellite photo. Although the photo (Street View) does produce some mixed emotions, like taking the surprise out of seeing the location for the first time.
As you said, it's not for you and many others here agree, but we can’t deny that GE mapping is becoming popular on the many websites that are using the feature.
For example: We did not know about Jok Prince (Remember, Khao Mu Daeng and how we like pig?) even though we walked around Yaowarat Road for two days.
With the help of the Travel Channel map, we located Jok Prince in seconds. Try that using "Jok Prince" and Google search - Ouch!
We never had a less than delicious meal in Thailand. Ninety-ninety percent of our meal were street food, but our first day in Bangkok we ended up in a small bar around the old Sam Yan Market.
The Khao Mu Daeng places we had been trying to get to had closed up and we were about to pass out from the heat. We were starving, it was too hot to keep moving and this bar was the only place nearby that had air conditioning.
Bangkok is really hot in the summer. You’d be hard pressed to find locals walking around mid day.
I only eat vegetables (I do like the Khao Mu Daeng sauce, cucumbers and rice) and this place was a local bar with a Thai language menu and zero English spoken.
No problem. The “mother” of the bar, went upstairs to cook noodles “spaghetti” using ketchup and I was too tired to say no.
Now, while the meal was not the best Thailand could offer, the dish was perfectly prepared, had lots of flavor and although “interesting” it was pretty tasty.
Maybe the above story speaks more to the cooking skills of Thai people and their overwhelming hospitality.
