Saturday, October 24, 2009

A Walk Across America on Google Maps

I was re-reading Peter Jenkins' books lately, and decided to map his journey on Google Maps.From "A Walk Across America" by Peter Jenkins and "The Walk West" by Peter and Barbara Jenkins. Original walk undertaken October 15, 1973 to January 18, 1979 (6651 miles). Additional information from National Geographic Vol. 151 No. 4, April 1977 and Vol. 156 No. 2, August 1979.

Part One: Alfred, NY to Orrville, AL

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Part Two: Orrville, AL to Salt Lake City, UT

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Part Three: Salt Lake City, UT to Florence, OR

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  1. bigsoxfanNovember 21, 2009 at 10:13 PM

    Interesting approach. I've just begun tracking Jack Aubrey's travel across the globe as related by Patrick O'Brian. I thought of using google earth, but having trouble linking google earth locations to anything other than a google earth site or email. Did you explore that route, before settling on Google Maps? Am I fighting the impossible dream with Google Earth and should I use your route? Great fun.

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  2. UnknownSeptember 14, 2010 at 12:55 AM

    I actually plotted this out using the original articles and maps in National Geographic. I believe you can now view Google Earth data in Google Maps...

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