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Here is an article from the Spokesman-Review about a Google initiative known as Google Trekker. This is a program where people take high-resolution cameras out into the woods, down a river, along a park path, etc., and take photos along the way. This allows other people to see those areas without actually going there themselves. It kind of defeats the purpose of an outdoor experience, but it can be useful and educational, especially for people who cannot physically visit those places themselves.
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I read this recent article by a reporter for the Washington Post, in which he recounts his visit to a place that he once called, "America's Worst Place To Live". This is a great example of how numbers, statistics, variables, etc., can be pulled together in a way that supposedly "ranks" places by some measure invented by a news organization or other entity... and those statistical profiles can leave the reader with a skewed and perhaps very incorrect visual image of that particular place. The reporter goes to visit the place he denigrated in an article... and learned some important things along the way. In essence, he learned about the geographical concepts of "site", "situation", and "place" by experiencing them first-hand. Well worth the read!
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