{"id":18579,"date":"2025-04-20T15:37:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T13:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/20\/looking-for-the-last-human-place-on-the-internet-try-google-maps\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T15:37:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T13:37:55","slug":"looking-for-the-last-human-place-on-the-internet-try-google-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/20\/looking-for-the-last-human-place-on-the-internet-try-google-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for the last human place on the internet? Try Google Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"

The navigation app might be built for function \u2013 but dig deeper and you\u2019ll find a trove of inside jokes, neighbourhood quirks and charming errors<\/p>\n

There is a certain kind of guy who looks at Google Maps for fun. I am that guy. As a kid I went through a cartography phase, drawing elaborate maps of fictional islands and poring over the family street directory in an effort to reconcile the lines and dots on the overcrowded pages with the streets, shops and friends\u2019 houses in my mind\u2019s eye. You could say that phase never really ended.<\/p>\n

In much the same way as some people will pull up a movie\u2019s IMDb entry the second they start watching, any time I come across an interesting town, country or geographical oddity (which is often in the news business), I\u2019m firing up Maps to see what topographical morsels I can uncover. I\u2019m no GeoGuessr<\/a> savant, but I\u2019ve spent many pleasant hours puzzling over interesting enclaves and panhandles, or pootling around far-flung locales in Street View. After finishing a recent episode of Severance I opened a tab and took an armchair tour through the remote Newfoundland island where it was shot.<\/p>\n

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\nThe navigation app might be built for function \u2013 but dig deeper and you\u2019ll find a trove of inside jokes, neighbourhood quirks and charming errors
\nThere is a certain kind of guy who looks at Google Maps for fun. I am that guy. As a kid I went through a cartography phase, drawing elaborate maps of fictional islands and poring over the family street directory in an effort to reconcile the lines and dots on the overcrowded pages with the streets, shops and friends\u2019 houses in my mind\u2019s eye. You could say that phase never really ended.
\nIn much the same way as some people will pull up a movie\u2019s IMDb entry the second they start watching, any time I come across an interesting town, country or geographical oddity (which is often in the news business), I\u2019m firing up Maps to see what topographical morsels I can uncover. I\u2019m no GeoGuessr savant, but I\u2019ve spent many pleasant hours puzzling over interesting enclaves and panhandles, or pootling around far-flung locales in Street View. After finishing a recent episode of Severance I opened a tab and took an armchair tour through the remote Newfoundland island where it was shot. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The navigation app might be built for function \u2013 but dig deeper and you\u2019ll find a trove of inside jokes, neighbourhood quirks and charming errors There is a certain kind of guy who looks at Google Maps for fun. I am that guy. As a kid I went through a cartography phase, drawing elaborate maps …<\/p>\n

Looking for the last human place on the internet? Try Google Maps<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18579"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}