frapper map of ILX peoples' places

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I guess this is a fun way to use google maps and see where other ILX posters live in relation to yourself. Add yourself down if you feel like it.

http://www.risingconcepts.com/frapper/ilx

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 16 October 2005 04:29 (twenty years ago)

Haha awesome!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 16 October 2005 04:43 (twenty years ago)

Nifty!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 16 October 2005 05:18 (twenty years ago)

why don't you make it a world map instead of a USA map

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Sunday, 16 October 2005 05:49 (twenty years ago)

oh it is, duh.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Sunday, 16 October 2005 05:50 (twenty years ago)

Heh, the spot it picked to put its flag down is right by my office.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Sunday, 16 October 2005 06:36 (twenty years ago)

and just for fun...
http://www.risingconcepts.com/frapper/peoplewhoopposethebushadministration

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 16 October 2005 06:58 (twenty years ago)

Does Momus really live in Berlin, MI?

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 16 October 2005 08:36 (twenty years ago)

WI.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 16 October 2005 08:38 (twenty years ago)

barry alvarez is retiring so he wants to be poised to strike

― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 16 October 2005 09:00 (twenty years ago)

what a great idea!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 16 October 2005 09:02 (twenty years ago)

There is one person in there twice, in the same place. I blame hstencil.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 16 October 2005 09:11 (twenty years ago)

actually also there are two others, but they don't have a suitable joke line attached to them

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 16 October 2005 09:12 (twenty years ago)

i like how if you zero in on nyc/new jersey, gypsy mothra towers so high above the rest of us. quick, someone move to harlem.

― astor riviera (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 16 October 2005 09:15 (twenty years ago)

Also, I don't like that it says city when it can get all the teeny wee towns as well (presumably why Matt Coastaltown is claiming to be a Liverpudlian - I checked, Ormskirk is on there...)

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 16 October 2005 09:15 (twenty years ago)

Hang on, there are multiple teeny towns? This can only be a good thing.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 16 October 2005 09:20 (twenty years ago)

When you zoom in, they've stuck my wee pointer thing in a fucking shopping centre. (I hate shopping)

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 16 October 2005 09:21 (twenty years ago)

Oh, sorry for cocking it up. Can't see a way to delete the multiple me.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 16 October 2005 09:22 (twenty years ago)

Well, at least it isn't in the middle of an industrial estate like mine

(xpost)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Sunday, 16 October 2005 09:23 (twenty years ago)

they have me up in the dumbo/navy yard area. is that even the same zip code?

― astor riviera (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 16 October 2005 09:30 (twenty years ago)

I love this! I don't do shoutouts though, so fuck that. But I had to. So I mentioned I dislike shoutouts. heh

― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Sunday, 16 October 2005 10:35 (twenty years ago)

Boo, they don't have a proper map of Finland, so you can't zoom into me. The map doesn't even show Helsinki, I'm just a dot on the southern coast.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 16 October 2005 10:58 (twenty years ago)

We have enough pics in which we can zoom into you, Tuomas. ;-)

― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Sunday, 16 October 2005 11:08 (twenty years ago)

what the fuck is this invalid zipcode bullshit???

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Sunday, 16 October 2005 11:17 (twenty years ago)

mike daddino lives in the central park reservoir!

― astor riviera (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 16 October 2005 12:09 (twenty years ago)

haha it put me under the gateway arch!

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 16 October 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

I guess I could remove the multiple entries with my adm privileges, but I think I won't. I did widen the map out a little so that at least you could see both the US and UK at the same time.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 16 October 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

It got really close to where I live, south just about 5 or 10 blocks.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 16 October 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

I didn't realise there was an ILXor in Hull...

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Sunday, 16 October 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

This is cool! However, it stuck me across the river, in Quebec (in a place called Hull, actually -- but I don't think you meant me, Forest Pines!), not Ottawa. Still, the general area is right. Ish.

― Surfer_Stone_Rosalita (Surfer_Stone_Rosalita), Sunday, 16 October 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

hahaha "wee pointer"

― nabiscothingy, Sunday, 16 October 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

(I am homeless and live in the park, like Daddino. Can this map SEE THE FUTURE?)

― nabiscothingy, Sunday, 16 October 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

i'm up in there now

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 16 October 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

i like how if you zero in on nyc/new jersey, gypsy mothra towers so high above the rest of us. quick, someone move to harlem.

Seriously, I feel like I'm in Upstate or something.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 16 October 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

ah, that's better -- nabsico, daddino and gabneb have made me not so lonely.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 16 October 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

I didn't realize that I live in someone's front yard.

― Lingbertt, Sunday, 16 October 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

Forest, yes, I'm just across the estuary from you.

― Nöödle Vägue (noodle vague), Sunday, 16 October 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

Well, just across the estuary and down a bit, I assume, unless you live in Spurn or Kilnsea.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Sunday, 16 October 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

I checked, Ormskirk is on there...)

That's odd, it wouldn't let me use Ormskirk.

― Matt (Matt), Sunday, 16 October 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

SO fun!!!!!!!

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Sunday, 16 October 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

haha! when I zoom in on the map, I have been placed in the ocean!

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 16 October 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

I put me in both London and Berkeley, but I want to be in Edgware!!

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Sunday, 16 October 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

I like how Tuomas is looking down on all the W.E.'s like a loving mother duck.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 16 October 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

tuomas looking down on someone? where?!

― I was CRYING when Huell Howser's head exploded in a local feed store (dr g), Sunday, 16 October 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

it put me by my friend's house. but he moved. :(((

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Sunday, 16 October 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

Daniel_rf complains that it wouldn't let him be in O'Porto, but I thought it was spelt Oporto. I mean, in English. Obviously he knows how to spell where he lives.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 16 October 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

I don't get how Adamrl has one foot in Cali and the other in the UK.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 16 October 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

well, it's this thing, you see.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Sunday, 16 October 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

I'm also surprised no one has claimed Antarctica yet.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 16 October 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

MCMURDO REPRAZENT

― astor riviera (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 16 October 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

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Sorry, try another country, we've already got a Finn.

― Paranoid Spice (kate), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

pernicious conformist!

― Munki (nordicskilla), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

I also like how some glitch in the programming put Ned's name above mine on the chronological list of participants... It's almost as though it knows who the real paterfamilias of this popsicle stand truly is.

Heheheh. Unintentional indeed but I am amused.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

No one lives in the lower 3rd of Manhattan?

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

does it arbitrarily decide where in london you are?

Sadly, yes. For non-US residents, it just plonks you wherever it likes in your city. It's a shame. I was hoping I could pinpoint my exact location and encourage stalkers.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

Mine put me almost exactly on my street!

― Munki (nordicskilla), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

It put me quite a distance from my house. Same thing happened to stence

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

Sadly, yes. For non-US residents, it just plonks you wherever it likes in your city. It's a shame. I was hoping I could pinpoint my exact location and encourage stalkers.

yebbut it should at least let you choose your borough. i was just gonna do it but stopped when it wouldn't let me put my postcode, for fear it drops me somewhere hellish like chelsea or acton.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

they've got me in clerkenwell or finsbury or somewhere, which suits me. next door to skidmore.

― N_RQ, Monday, 17 October 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

Except I actually live in Tottenham, miles from there.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

ok. now can someone create an alternate reality ILX map, so we can place ourselves in (multiple?) fantasy locations, seek to colonize minor countries, etc?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

For non-US residents, it just plonks you wherever it likes in your city.

It does that for the US, too, more or less. I mean, it get specific by zip code, but after that, it'll put you anywhere. I'm supposedly about a mile and a half away from where I actually live.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

it places me closer to where I grew up/where my parents live, than where I live, which is in an adjacent zip code

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

although I see that some people have already done what I posited above

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

It really does make it look like Mandee has no friends, that map :(

(p.s. my pointer is in London's trendy Shoreditch or something - how wrong is that??)

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

My Little Miss Marker is mistaken by several miles but no matter -- I'm practically in Bed-Stuy anyway, as I discovered while looking at the AIA Guide yesterday. And Jon, there should be at least one person in downtown Manhattan, but maybe she hasn't seen this yet...?

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

My marker is about five miles out for my house, but only a few minutes' walk for my office.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

And Jon, there should be at least one person in downtown Manhattan, but maybe she hasn't seen this yet...?

Does the Candy Store have its own zip code?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

Sometimes I think it has its own dimension, Jay. The corrugated steel curtain is less to keep thieves out than to keep the tesseract IN.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

look how ALONE I AM

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Monday, 17 October 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

what about milo and JD?

― Munki (nordicskilla), Monday, 17 October 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

It does that for the US, too, more or less. I mean, it get specific by zip code, but after that, it'll put you anywhere.

Zip codes are rubbish then. My postcode is only shared by about 5 other addresses.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 17 October 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

Well, Alba, there are nine-digit zip codes that are much more specific, but nobody really remembers their nine-digit zip codes, since they're not necessary to use when addressing mail.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 17 October 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

...unless part of your job is always researching nine digit zipcodes...

― Munki (nordicskilla), Monday, 17 October 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

The US postal service should encourage you to remember and use them! It makes life much easier. Like, you tell a company your postcode and house number and their database can fill in the rest. It's very futuristic.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 17 October 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

I have also been placed worryingly close to where I actually live...

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Monday, 17 October 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

i wish it had placed me closer to my actual block, but i guess this'll have to do for some initial representation of lower manhattan.

― carly (carly), Monday, 17 October 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

I'm not too far off -- they placed me outside of the triangle formed by the 405, 73 and 55, but still.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 October 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

does it add the flag at the centre of the square you're looking at?

um, no. i'm even further east than jel. 8(

still, tate's within walking distance...

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 17 October 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

By the way, I tried to refine the zip but that field only takes 5 digits -- so it wouldn't do any good to add the other 4.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 17 October 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

I like how excited Nick is about nine digit zip codes!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 17 October 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

Pass on your postcode, you're not properly addressed without it!

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 17 October 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

They placed me in the next zip code over, a block from my ex's house.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 17 October 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

Nine digit zip codes are pretty awesome. Sometimes they specify you to the very floor of the building you're in! Or so I am told.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 17 October 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

Oh, fuck. The wrong hands.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 17 October 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

How to find out where you'd end up if you dug a hole through the Earth and popped out the other side.

For me, not Australia after all, but a few hundred miles southeast of New Zealand's South Island.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 10:49 (nineteen years ago)

wow me too, we must live on the same landmass.

― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

That is k-awesome.

Obviously I ended up in the middle of the ocean to the SE of New Zealand as well. And yet, I still felt compelled to pinpoint my house, in order to find out the exact bit of water I'd end up in.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

really?

http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/9176/myholeendsheredl2.jpg

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

i keep reading the title of this thread and going "no fine girls, just ugly faces!"

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

North and to the west of sunny - right above some kind of ocean trench, it seems.

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

Same general area of ocean as the rest of the Britishes, but I made sure the hole started in our back garden.

― Through a twenty deep screen of humourists (noodle vague), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h271/stckhlmcnd/yourholeendshere.jpg

― the car, the hole, and the peekskill meteorite (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 05:39 (nineteen years ago)

Atention! This site is not responsible for bank, house or any establishment assaults occured by holes maded by our users.

― the car, the hole, and the peekskill meteorite (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 05:44 (nineteen years ago)

I end up in the middle of the north Atlantic :( I can't SWIM.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 05:56 (nineteen years ago)

Ana Ng come true! I'm somewhere SSW of Madagascar.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 06:03 (nineteen years ago)

My hole pops up in Botswana.

― mahalo 4 ur kokua (grady), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 06:14 (nineteen years ago)

marry me

― jergins (jergins), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 07:02 (nineteen years ago)

I end up off the east coast of northern Africa.

― It's a hard world for little things... (papa november), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 08:04 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

We're going to need a better map.

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 18:18 (eighteen years ago)

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