Staying with the map theme for the day, RomeReborn is an educational site that features a virtual model of Rome as it would have appeared on June 21, 320 A.D. You’re free to explore the model and watch videos showing the major features of the model.
This site was 10 years in the making, and was created by the combined efforts of groups from four different universities. Because it’s an educational site, you won’t feel bad after wasting the rest of the day exploring it.
It seems many fans of metal detecting are also fans of exploring - they go hand-in-hand, don’t they? One of the best tools for exploring is a map, and the best map tool on the internet is Google Maps. I have been using Google Maps for years to help find my way around town, and recently, gMaps released Google Maps Street View. Street view is exactly what it sounds like….it’s a ton of actual photos taken from the street, all stitched together to make it appear that you’re actually on the street looking around. It’s pretty difficult to give a full explanation, so I’m going to let one of the Google guys (Ryan) do it for me:
Understand now? I live in Orlando, FL, which has this feature, so I’ve spent hours searching the map for my car - to no avail. Street view has brought on a bit of controversy since its inception, mostly with privacy issues. There are now billions a lot of websites devoted to finding unusual photos and situations in street view.
