Ever since I tried to create a personal map of the landfill in relation to my house yesterday and got severely frustrated, despite trying several programs including My Maps in Google Maps itself, I've started digging through map apps today. I greatly enjoy wikimapia because it has sort of human relevant landmarks and annotations on it that help me get a perspective of the area I'm looking at.
I resorted to making a hand drawn map, and today I've been examining all the neighborhoods around the town I lived in, East Brunswick, and gathering a list of places I'd like to visit when I go back. I never realized how close I was to Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Staten Is, Newark, etc. We rarely left EB, barely went to the City. I also had a bad visual perspective of Manhattan and the surrounding Jersey areas for a long time simply because Long Is trips me up with the way it extends out from the NY state, often making my mind lazy enough to forget that Manhattan is actually quite land-surrounded.
