Henry Hudson never did find the Northwest passage to India, but this year marks the 400th anniversary of his third voyage—the one where he came to New York and sailed up what is now the Hudson River (he made it as far as modern-day Albany). Hudson showed that often it is what you stumble upon on your way to somewhere else that turns out to be your great discovery. To celebrate the anniversary, the Henry Hudson 400 Foundation has charted all of Hudson’s voyages onto a Google map, along with overlays of historical maps. The overlays are kind of clunky, but just being able to see the actual routes Hudson took is kind of cool.
I only wish the custom map was available on the Google Maps site itself (maybe it is, but I wasn’t able to find it, although I did find this map of Hudson’s third voyage which was put together by an elementary school class). In fact, Google Maps should have an “Explorers section” where you could see famous expedition routes from Lewis and Clark’s to Shackleton’s voyage to Antarctica. Many of these have already been mapped out for Google Earth or as custom Google Maps, but it would be nice to have them all in one place as a section within Google Maps, or at least make Google could make them easier to find.
Once again a good example of applications provided on top of GoogleMaps.
Very interesting, good example, as Nana said.
could someone explain to me how you sail up the hudson river, or any river for that matter?
How much wind do you need to tack back and forth up a river – and what do you do when it isn’t windy? Just anchor up for a few days?
Sail up the river:
- it’s a tidal river, so you can go with the flow when the tide is up
- the put a little barge in front of the ship, and the rowed
- or, when possible, some man on land could tow the boad
- and when there’s wind, you can use that
You should get right on that.
The cool thing is, if as a society, we keep working on melting that pesky polar ice cap, pretty soon there will be a Northwest Passage to the orient, and Henry’s life’s pursuit can be fulfilled.
I can’t think of a better tribute!
Right, because climate conditions are controled by society. Green movements are phony, and are only sucessful because the majority of society are such gullible morons. Your ancestors probably believed that the world was flat.
If you knew how to insult, your statement would be correct. MANY people in older times believed the world was flat.
heh, i did a google maps search for amber india restaurant in SF and almost ended up on a similar voyage…. check it out for yourself
http://maps.goo...e%2C%20%2094130
Apparently a very light news day…