OpenStreetMap is a new kind of wiki. Instead of adding content as text and graphics, you can edit the map of the world.
There are GPS tracing options to make it easier to add sections of road. Hop in your car with you GPS and drive the route you want to add. Then dump the data from your GPS into the map.
There could be some real potential for educational projects with this site.
Everyone walking around Disney has a camera. A few people have video cameras. I have actually asked several people if they intend to sit down and watch hours of video. Many have said hey plan to upload segments to YouTube.
I think you get pretty much the whole Disney experience online. Go to YouTube or Flickr and type:
disney world castle
disney world fireworks
disney world mgm
disney world tree of life
Here are links to the MGM Extreme Stunts act I was talking about before.
During my trip to Florida I have been offline for two straight weeks (sorry if your emails have gone unanswered). I did have a laptop so I could record my thoughts along the way and transfer thousands of pictures from our digital cameras.
It hasn’t been that bad. I can plow through all the email in a day when I get home. It is Christmas break, so there are not a lot of things that need done.
Socially it hasn’t been bad either. We are doing things every waking minute and we aren’t sleeping much. Quite honestly, even if an Internet connection were available to me, I probably wouldn’t be online most days.
By the time I get home, my cache will be empty and I will be ready to get back online.
A couple of times during our trip we have had a quick meal at a fast food restaurant. Today we had one of those times. During the order process, my wife asks the girl behind the counter about a sandwich. The question was pretty simple. “What is on it?”
The answer was just a simple. “I have no idea.”
I know that most teenagers have at least one hamburger-joint-job during high school or college, and I realize that fast food is not a career option for most people. But is it too much to ask that we all take a little more pride in our work?
