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wispfoxMy network connection from home is behaving again. Yay!
Went to a party last night. Is good that I'd been so very anti-social this week, or I'd not have had the energy to attend. Was good, although _much_ too crowded for me. I am definitely periodically annoyed by my difficulties with being able to interact in large groups, especially in the winter. Damn screwy spoken-word pocessor...
I really, really want a map like http://maps.google.com, but which shows the locations of all rail in use - whether it be ground-based or things like monorail. What would be even more sexy would be if, when one clicked on a specific piece of rail, it brought you to the website for whomever runs that particular line (main website would be good, but something specific to what you clicked on would be _amazing_). Better still would be if different types of rail - like, say, short hops things like the MBTA or BART, vs longer trips like Amtrak - were colored differently, so one could tell where the perminant bits of city-based public transit was in unfamiliar cities, as well as how to get between distant locations. (I don't tend to care as much about the busses, as I tend to use them less often. It would, however, be nice to have a similar thing for buses).
My god, I really want that. The main problem I tend to have with most maps for public transit that I've seen is that they are rarely superimposed over an actual map, so I have to do a lot of cross-checking to figure out where I'll end up. I also dislike having to have multiple different maps of the same area, just because of public transit.
*map lust*
Went to a party last night. Is good that I'd been so very anti-social this week, or I'd not have had the energy to attend. Was good, although _much_ too crowded for me. I am definitely periodically annoyed by my difficulties with being able to interact in large groups, especially in the winter. Damn screwy spoken-word pocessor...
I really, really want a map like http://maps.google.com, but which shows the locations of all rail in use - whether it be ground-based or things like monorail. What would be even more sexy would be if, when one clicked on a specific piece of rail, it brought you to the website for whomever runs that particular line (main website would be good, but something specific to what you clicked on would be _amazing_). Better still would be if different types of rail - like, say, short hops things like the MBTA or BART, vs longer trips like Amtrak - were colored differently, so one could tell where the perminant bits of city-based public transit was in unfamiliar cities, as well as how to get between distant locations. (I don't tend to care as much about the busses, as I tend to use them less often. It would, however, be nice to have a similar thing for buses).
My god, I really want that. The main problem I tend to have with most maps for public transit that I've seen is that they are rarely superimposed over an actual map, so I have to do a lot of cross-checking to figure out where I'll end up. I also dislike having to have multiple different maps of the same area, just because of public transit.
*map lust*
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Date: 2005-02-12 03:38 pm (UTC)(And I'd like it too :-})
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Date: 2005-02-12 03:51 pm (UTC)I have now. :)
(I've been suggesting a lot to them. Like the ability to select start and end points for directions by clicking on a point on the map!)
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Date: 2005-02-12 03:59 pm (UTC)http://maps.google.com/maps?q=10%20Mt%20Pleasant%20St%2C%20Billerica%2C%20MA&ll=42.598267%2C-71.280726&spn=0.028809%2C0.053629
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Date: 2005-02-12 05:15 pm (UTC)Seeble!!!
That's one of the reasons I prefer on-line written interactions better - it gives me a chance to think before I write something, rather than have to think on my feet. Since I also periodically have problems that seem like aphasia, it really sucks to try to make small talk or interact with a lot of people at once.
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Date: 2005-02-12 06:52 pm (UTC)Yep. Very much so.
Combine with this the fact that I've got face blindness to at least some extent, tend to not remember names (easier if written, though), and the fact that I tend to be unable to remember anything about people if there is nowhere in my brain to put memories about them (means I rarely rememeber first meetings, unless I knew of a person already and someone makes the connection for me. This doesn't always help, but it's better than nothing), and large group things can be... rather useless.
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Date: 2005-02-12 06:53 pm (UTC)p.s., i totally hear you on the public transit map vs. street map thing. part of my troubles with navigating in boston via car (which i'm mostly over) had to do with not being able to connect disjoint portions of the city while driving. like, how do i get from porter to harvard? well, you take the T, duh.
it's also occasionally embarassing to be downtown near the four corners of the T and not be able to walk from one station to another, even though they're separated by like two blocks sometimes.
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Date: 2005-02-14 06:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-14 07:13 pm (UTC)Except, I can't find Smart View. Waaaaaa! :(
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Date: 2005-02-15 05:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-15 06:31 pm (UTC)Gotcha. :)
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Date: 2005-02-15 06:34 pm (UTC)And it doesn't show the actual rail lines themselves. However, much better than nothing! Thank you. :)
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Date: 2005-02-15 08:55 pm (UTC)