On the old Afterword, one of the first posts I made was to ask where you all are, geographically.
Well now I have found that we could do this cartographically – by putting little flags on a map.
Afterworders across the world
Follow the link and add your flag if you want, together with your username.
There is also a separate layer for culturally-significant locations
Other layers could be added as requested.
The map is fairly open to editing – I think only the layers have to be added by myself – the flags and labelling can be edited by anyone (so watch out you don’t move other people about).
You also have to be logged into Google to do this, so – if you want a flag, but don’t want to sign up – let me know and I can add you.
Let me know what you think – it might all drop like a lead zeppelin, of course…
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Harry Tufnell says
I’m on there now, if anyone is passing by drop in and I’ll make you a cuppa!
Bingo Little says
Coooool
minibreakfast says
Done.
Hee-hee, who added Gerry Rafferty?
salwarpe says
moi!
And you can add other dead famous rock stars or any other items of geographically-specific cultural ephemera under the ‘significant cultural locations’ heading
salwarpe says
You don’t have to add your name, mini – but if you don’t, there is no way of telling who you are -(Point 6 or Point 7 being the anonymous ones, so far).
James Blast says
I’m Point 13 but I can’t figure out how to add my name.
salwarpe says
To edit and add your name, click on the flag. When a box pops up, squeeze on the pencil in the bottom right corner. Then rename the title (Point xxx) with your chosen moniker.
@james-blast – I did this for you, and added a special image, which I hope you will like.
biggles says
Think I did it right…
salwarpe says
Absolutely, @biggles – assuming you wanted to be in the Channel Islands.
biggles says
Thank you – though please note I’m in Guernsey; I wouldn’t want to be mistaken for one of those other lot…
Bingo Little says
Looking forward to the moment one of us discovers that niscum is in our loft space.
“It’s coming from inside the house – get out! Get out!”
Wheldrake says
I’m on there. Second star to the right and straight on til morning….
Kaisfatdad says
Great idea! I fear Sweden will be rather short of stars. But we do have the Northern Lights.
bungalowjoe says
Added
davidks says
Not working for me…can you please add me to Houston, TX, US of A
salwarpe says
Done – and given you a Danger Mouse, as well!
eddie g says
This looks fun, but I’m technically inept so, if you have a moment, could you pin me to Cardiff? Thanks.
salwarpe says
Done!
Kaisfatdad says
I’ve actually managed to put my star on our street!
This was a wonderful idea Sal. Hope lots of people add their location.
Gary, I presume that you are the artist formerly known as …..
Gary says
I am indeed the ‘artiste’ (if you don’t mind) formerly known as Sting Ono. I decided to come out after we all got chummy with the facebook experience. But now I’ve noticed there’s another Gary (T). No offence, Gary T, but I feel somewhat disgruntled now.
Kaisfatdad says
It was your enthusiasm for the Floyd that made me suspect.
You are the second renamed blogger I’ve managed to identify. Quite reassuring that one recognizes people regardless of their handle. A lot of interesting, distinctive personalities here.
Moose could change his name to Giraffe and within five minutes we’d have rumbled him
Kaisfatdad says
Sal, one fun idea would be to one of these maps and we could add our favourite live music venues. Invaluable for anyone visiting our neck of the woods.
salwarpe says
Live music venues layer added – just make sure you untick the other layers before flaggin up the Stockholm finger in the ear folk club, etc..
Baskerville Old Face says
I’m in (and giving you more of an international flavour!)
salwarpe says
You are in a very exclusive part of Delhi! – 25 years ago I stayed with staff of the British Embassy in Delhi – scenic, landscaped area
salwarpe says
Glad you like it, @kaisfatdad – I can add a separate layer for music venues.
bobness says
Blimey, no wonder there’s never an east midlands mingle…
Hello davidg from just down the road!
Mike Hull says
How do you get the star symbol to display on the cultural significance layer?
salwarpe says
Hover your mouse over the name in the column on the left of the screen. A diamond will appear to the right (as if by magic). Click on that and you should see the options to change colours and shapes. Did you add Joe and Jarvis, @mikethep? I can change them to blue stars, if you like.
Bingo Little says
Kudos to whoever added the Bizkit.
salwarpe says
Thought you’d like that – has Jim Cain shown his face yet?
James Blast says
Horror story for Glass~gow, so many epic live venues have come and gone.
For me The Apollo thru Nightmoves ending in Splash 1. I still don’t rate the Barrowlands, and that’s after a steamy Anthrax concert in 1989.
On The Fence says
I can`t seem to figure it out. Can someone add me to Szekesfehervar, it`s Hungary`s ninth largest city ( don`t you know )
salwarpe says
Done, @colm-g-shannon!
Rigid Digit says
Guess what?
I think I knackered it – well, knackered my entry anyway.
Technological luddite that I am, I managed to add myself in 32 locations.
Proper entry is in Reading – f**k knows where the other 31 are?
salwarpe says
No – you didn’t knacker it – it’s just that if the view is set to “Style by name column”, only 20 flags are visible and the rest hide underneath one – in this case, rigid digit.
Rigid Digit says
And there was me thinking I’d broken the new toy by being a ham-fisted dullard (not for the first time).
Good job there are more techy-minded people about than this monkey (who hasn’t yet gone to heaven)
salwarpe says
Why be in heaven when you could be walking down the Shinfield Road into town?
hubert rawlinson says
Added Black Lace (cultural icons) point 53. Hope I’ve done it correctly.
salwarpe says
Nice touch, @hubert-rawlinson – I hope you don’t mind, but I moved them into the cultural significance layer.
hubert rawlinson says
Move much appreciated, wasn’t sure how to do it.
salwarpe says
What you do is – untick the other layers first, then locate your, um, location and then add it. By default it loads into the remaining layer ‘open’
Larry Bee says
Can’t do it!!
Can some kind soul please add me to Great Sankey
Ta in advance
salwarpe says
Done – with your bird’n all.
fitterstoke says
Hi Sal, I have tried & failed…..could you please add me at Douglas, Isle of Man? Many thanks….
salwarpe says
Done – with your HATN shirt.
fitterstoke says
Great job – thanks, Sal. Now to have a search through the map & see where everybody bides….
walker1 says
I’m on!
salwarpe says
Sorting issues
Who added the Aspidistra and Hatstand? (Come on, own up!) I wondered if that should be in the cultural significance layer (I really have to watch my anal tendencies here)
I like Moby Dick and Rasputin – very witty!
I’m tempted to go for fixed icons for the cultural and live venue layers, but think free expression is good for Afterworders, although like to see names, rather than ‘Point xxx’ – any thoughts as users?
MC Escher says
Me, Sir. I thought it ought to go somewhere like Soho Square . I couldn’t figure out ho to move categories though, so thank you.
Mike Hull says
I added Jarvis and Joe!
salwarpe says
and the other fine examples of Sheffield culture, @mike-hull?
Larry Bee says
Oops. My name is entered as Great Sankey instead of Larry Bee.
That’s my location.
Apologies for my ball achery
My bad.
salwarpe says
No worries, @larry-bee – I’m often all about ball achery, myself
thecheshirecat says
As the observant will remember, I love a good map, me. Feeling a bit lonely up in the northwest at the moment. I know there’s more of you about.
Declan says
Hi Sal, please add me on Wuppertal, Germany.
salwarpe says
Ist getan, Declan.
Curtis from Ohio says
My apologies to sitheref! Although we are some 400 miles apart, my name showed up right on top of his!
pencilsqueezer says
Mea culpa to The Lover of the Russian Queen and Moby Dick and ahem a few others…
salwarpe says
Very nice, @pencilsqueezer – shall I leave them where they are, or put them in the culture section?
pencilsqueezer says
Wherever you think is best Sal. *wink*
Wiggy says
I’m on , (zooming in will explain my username – not very exciting, you would have to be at a very loose end)
Lando Cakes says
Done and dusted.
mikethep says
Done, although where I’ll be living next week as opposed to now.
OK Point 10, you can come out now!
Black Celebration says
Great idea! I am assuming unanimous approval here, but I thought it important to note the location of where Um Bongo HQ is rumoured to be. The symbol should be a culturally-important star but I couldn’t make out how to change the symbol…
timtunes says
I’ve landed, thanks – no other bugger close
BaldySlaphead says
I’ve put mine on, vaguely near where I am. I’m not keen on revealing exactly where I live on a publicly accessible map.
salwarpe says
Sounds senslble, @baldyslaphead – often it’s easiest just to type in the town where you live – that way, there won’t be any stray Afterworders ambling up after a cup of sugar and a docking station for their iPod.
BaldySlaphead says
Precisely. I’d need at least an hours notice to hide all the hair metal LPs and replace ’em with Afterword friendly albums.
Moose the Mooche says
“A docking station for their ipod” – an Afterworder’s seduction technique. See also, “Would you care for a tootle on my shawm?”
policybloke says
I promise I won’t come round without an invite.
duco01 says
Hello salwarpe!
I don’t seem to be able to do this.
So can you pin me somewhere near Spånga in the western suburbs of Stockholm, please?
Thanks,
duco01
salwarpe says
done, @duco01 – with a nice big elephant shrew to go with it.
duco01 says
Thanks, sal.
The shrew does indeed look tremendous.
Vincent says
Deviant808, i pass through your manor daily on the way to work. Should we shake dewlaps and suspiciously sniff hind-quarters over a pint of medicine?
The Pelvis says
Bit sparse in the NG postcode; only @bobness, @baldyslaphead, @policybloke, @davidg and myself. Would only require a shed for a mingle.
Diddley Farquar says
I seem to be furthest north so far, which gives me some kind of deluded and unwarranted sense of superiority.
salwarpe says
Absolutely, @allium-sativum (Sven?) – unless you count Moby Dick and Santa Claus – which I think @pencilsqueezer does!
Diddley Farquar says
‘Tis I
geacher says
Pedant alert: Macca has been tagged as being on the Mull Of Kintyre which is not quite true. High Park
Farm is some 15 mile North of his tag. So there!
salwarpe says
Moved him, @geacher
– also put ‘Macca’ into a renamed layer ‘cultural institutions’ – a kind of grab bag for anything or one not an Afterworder – if enough are added, I can separate them out by categories, even down unto musical genre.
pencilsqueezer says
No I don’t believe in Santa but Moby Dick…
geacher says
Spot on Sal!
StuartReeves says
I’m on, and safely on land too, which is more than can be said for Middlerabbit.
hubert rawlinson says
Maybe he’s a leftover pirate DJ forced to wander the seas not unlike Der fliegende Holländer
StuartReeves says
Possibly, or maybe he (or she) really is a rabbit who happens to be adrift in the middle of the North Sea.
hubert rawlinson says
like this, I hope
first attempt at a picture. This may not work
http://s1.postimg.org/aa3kcj9cf/rabbit.jpg
hubert rawlinson says
StuartReeves says
It almost worked, and yes, that looks like Middlerabbit to me.
salwarpe says
Here you go (I think)
http://i1366.photobucket.com/albums/r761/salwarpe1/rabbit_zpsvibwjiy0.jpg
I will add this to his flag.
Middlerabbit is still active (on Guardian threads) as you can find if you Google him (?) or click on the link I put in his flag.
Moose the Mooche says
Deserted in favour of CiF??? Are we that bad?
salwarpe says
I wasn’t around for the Middlerabbit debacle, but from battle reports it sounds like he would be more comfortable in the combative threshing floors below the comment line of Guardian articles.
Iggypop says
I’m in..but it’s a bit lonely up here on the North East coast.
hubert rawlinson says
Not for nothing was it known as the debatable lands.
Moose the Mooche says
The main debate being…. why doesn’t anyone have a coat?
Moose the Mooche says
Actually, I can talk, it’s quite amazing that in a country as small as England there seems to be a 40-50 mile exclusion zone around me.
Bloody courts.
hubert rawlinson says
Not for nothing was it known as the debatable lands.
Chrisf says
I’m in…. joining Hawkfall in Singapore
Hawkfall says
Yay! We now have the Straits Massive! I’ve no idea whereabouts in Singapore my pin is, I didn’t zoom in that much when adding it. I could be in the middle of Mcritchie Reservoir for all I know.
GCU Grey Area says
I’ve no great desire to open a Google account, but if @salwarpe or anyone else would like to plant a flag for me, then Burrow Mump, next to the village of Burrowbridge in Somerset would be good. Chateau Grey is not far from the Mump, but I’d rather not put my precise location on the map.
Think of Burrow Mump as Glastonbury Tor’s less showy cousin . . .
salwarpe says
You are on, @gcu-grey-area. I transferred your white horse sprite, – sorry it is so small.
GCU Grey Area says
Cheers, Sal.
Number Six says
Point 100! Woot!
I spin dodgy 80’s & 90’s alternative at the Royal Oak most Saturdays. Pop-in & I’ll let you buy me a pint!
Mousey says
Ooh I’ve just been a bit naughty!
salwarpe says
I love all the cultural reference points being added – keep ’em coming! Anybody else notice that @burt-kocain is marked now?
Ainsley says
I’m on, adding to the North West contingent and because I’m a rebel I’ve put mine in green.
thecheshirecat says
But, oh Wirralian and therefore fellow Cestrian, how did you change the colour? I’ve not yet sussed how to choose a different marker pin for cultural reference points etc.
salwarpe says
Hello to @thecheshirecat and here’s how you change your flag:
1. Go to the column on the left of the screen with all the names listed (if you are on a tablet, the way to access that is by touching the 3 parallel lines in the top left of the screen – then the column appears).
2. Hover with your mouse over your name, or touch your name (if on a tablet). A diamond appears on the right, as if by magic.
3. Click/touch the diamond.
4. Options appear to change the color and shape of your flag.
5. Er.
6. That’s it, really.
thecheshirecat says
Cooo. Brilliant. Now, where’s that Half Map Half Biscuit website?
GCU Grey Area says
@salwarpe – I’ve got a couple of ‘cultural’ items. Could you add them?
First is the Uffington White Horse, the image from XTC’s ‘English Settlement’.
http://i1060.photobucket.com/albums/t449/GCU_Grey_Area/white-horse_zpsihsassrb.jpg
And the second is the Black Horse Inn, Clapton in Gordano, near that Bristol. @minibreakfast will like this, as it is the pub on The Wurzels seminal ‘Don’t Tell I, Tell ‘ee’ album.
http://i1060.photobucket.com/albums/t449/GCU_Grey_Area/The-Wurzels-Dont-Tell-I-Tell-458320_zpshu7mjp8v.jpg
salwarpe says
Done and done, @gcu-grey-area
GCU Grey Area says
Thanks, Sal.
Wayfarer says
Could someone add me? Wellingborough, near the station. cheers.
salwarpe says
Added, with your monkey.
Wayfarer says
Cheers!
Mike Hull says
Still no one else in the Sheffield area on the map. Was it something I said?
Kaisfatdad says
This is shaping up very nicely.
There’s an impressive geographic range. It does somehow make quite a difference knowing where people are located.
Nice work Sal!
fitterstoke says
Has anybody moved since 2015?
Arthur Cowslip says
Me! But only about a mile.
I just realised I’m not on it. But not able to add a new point for some reason. Its a bit clunky on this phone. Never mind. I live on the dark side of the moon if you need to know.
Rigid Digit says
Still in the same place.
Boringly consistent, that’s me.
Arthur Cowslip says
I’m consistently boring, myself.
pavelboy says
I`m on it now, my nearest neighbours are Ainsley and Pencilsqueezer, which is nice. Next time i`m over the water i`ll pop in for a cuppa
pavelboy says
And, of course, thecheshirecat, sorry cat
aardvarknever says
My first post in the new world – I’m flagged.
Davidg says
Hi bobness. I thought you were down the road and I was up the road!
Moose the Mooche says
I think by now we’re all down the road.
James Taylor says
I’m in Dubai but don’t have a clue how to add me?
salwarpe says
Well, somebody has added you, @james-taylor – even if it wasn’t you. Good to have a Middle East correspondent.
James Taylor says
Thanks, I worked it our after I had posted this. Good to be back
Fenderman says
I’m on the Map although the Bristol/WoE is looking a bit sparse.
mikethep says
@salwarpe How do I change from where I was to where I am?
Gary says
Diet and exercise.
salwarpe says
@mikethep – Ah, ah, taking me back, taking me back, taking me back, taking me back
Taking me back, taking me back, taking me back, taking me back
Taking me back (woah) to when the world made more sense
Let me look into this.
I have looked and I can edit the map (and all the markers on it!), even if you cannot – maybe you need a Gmail account? Let me know where you would like to be, and I can move you.
mikethep says
@salwarpe I’m signed into Google, but the only editable thing I can discover is my name.
Maybe the answer is to delete and start again? Failing that, I’m in Murwillumbah, northern NSW, inland between Coolangatta and Byron Bay.
H.P. Saucecraft says
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA*KAFF KAFF KAFF*HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (ect ect)
mikethep says
@salwarpe I’ve just dragged myself from Brisbane to Murwillumbah.
Not sure if Saucepot will survive any more hilarity, but beg to report that in the local native language Murwillumbah means ‘place of many possums’.
hubert rawlinson says
Mike’s view recently.
salwarpe says
Glad you found out how to make the virtual trip, @mikethep. You seem to have ended up in a field between a river and a sewage plant – maybe the site has been redeveloped since the map was created.
Slug says
Yessss! I’m the second most southerly AfterWorder in the UK. The estate agent was right.
(leans out the window and waves cheerily to Davebigpicture)
davebigpicture says
“Waves vaguely in the direction of Shoreham”
H.P. Saucecraft says
Is this the thread where GCUgreyarea says that Crimso time signatures are like the sizes on an imperial socket set? That was – and is – the single greatest thing on the internet.
GCU Grey Area says
Gosh.*goes a bit red, stares at the ground*. I am chuffed.
It might have been on a thread about ‘Top Trumps’ cards…
H.P. Saucecraft says
Ah – I thought I’d seen it somewhere!
fitterstoke says
The thread surfaced recently – but it’s sunk back into the murky depths again…
GCU Grey Area says
Yes, I saw it some time over the weekend, I think. I still have the ‘Top Trump’ card I did, whose link went down when Photobucket started charging.
Just noticed James Blast upthread.
Moose the Mooche says
I looked at that card only yesterday.
hubert rawlinson says
https://i1060.photobucket.com/albums/t449/GCU_Grey_Area/KC-TT_zpsr8qfom6v.jpg
It’s still viewable as Moosey said.
GCU Grey Area says
So it is. I thought all those image links were borked when Photobucket stopped allowing images on their site to be shared from their free accounts.
Max the Dog says
I added myself on and find I’m the westeringest in Europe, or at least until someone from Dingle or Estoril gets pegged.