Obsessively Detailed Map Of Springfield 371
An anonymous reader writes "With all these stories going around about governments' abilities to pinpoint our location via various means, it's quite surprising that one group of people have avoided them for so long. That dastardly family, The Simpsons, have been hidden in Springfield for far too long. Which brings us to the following obsessively detailed map of Springfield. From Jerry Lerma and Terry Hogan: "The mapping of Springfield began in the Spring of 2001 when we realized that no adequate map of Springfield existed either online or in print.""
But in episode... (Score:5, Insightful)
"Due to the many inconsistencies among episodes, the map will never be completely accurate. Although we'd like our map to be as accurate as a map to any imaginary place can be, our main intent is to preserve the comic spirit of Springfield, document its unique identity, and to have some fun at the same time."
IMO they did a great job! (although wasn't the Simpson's house in eyeshot of
Are the same people... (Score:5, Insightful)
Even if it's not entirely accurate... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:I'm sorry. So what? (Score:3, Insightful)
I fail to see how you could possibly find nearly anything on
Re:Can you actually create one? (Score:5, Insightful)
Even before that, across the street from their place are sometimes normal houses llike theirs, sometimes the mansion former presidents Bush and Ford lived in, sometimes an empty field leading to the highway, etc.
Hell, even Flander's house isn't stable, in the Stonecutters ep it was the nuclear plant's parking lot.
The Kwicky Mart moves around a lot too.
Like Homer said: "Cartoons don't have to make sense".
Re:Are the same people... (Score:4, Insightful)
this place is slowly shifting from "news for nerds" to "news for dorks"
there is a distinction!
-- james
No point... (Score:3, Insightful)
b) Very rarely do we see them actually travel in the city
c) No relation to Old New York, it's all buried below. Anything could be placed anywhere
Not that it'd stop anyone with too much time on their hands, like people replying to this article, like you, and me, heh.
Kjella
Re:old! (Score:3, Insightful)
What I've always thought would be the easiest way of checking for Dups is to compare the URLs in an article to the URLs in previous articles. (ignoring ones that point to the main site index pages like http://www.nytimes.com/) The the URL has been used, warn that it might be a dup and show the editor the previous version.
Re:simpsons hit n run (Score:4, Insightful)
Well, as we saw in "Trash of the Titans" (episode 9.22), Springfield's Plan B for dealing with emergencies is to move the whole town 5 miles down the road. Given how many crises seem to pop up there, it's not unreasonable to assume that they've invoked Plan B on a number of occasions.
Re:old! (Score:4, Insightful)
And your addiction to slashdot grows.
Slashdot wouldn't be nearly as addicting (and hence not as popular) if it were the type of site you think want. If you care so much, go read the New York Times technical section or something. If you get sick of the well written "real news", I bet we see you back here, making another snarky post.
Re:Why bother when... (Score:4, Insightful)
The only thing I don't like about current episodes are all the gratuitous celebrity cameos. That's one thing the early episodes got right (have the celebrities play someone besides themselves).