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[2LaneCruzer]

It doesn't confuse me one bit because we do it here now too. That way people don't fall asleep at the wheel. A lesson that we had to learn the hard way.
Wanna drive a straight road, take a trip on US 50 across Nevada some day.
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It's the loneliest highway in America or so they say. I'd much rather drive it than take the Interstate though. When I get the chance and am in no particular hurry, I usually get off the Interstate and take alternate routes. Less traffic, more scenery, more history, better food and it usually doesn't add much if anything to the time but it sure does add to the enjoyment.

Man, the perspective is really weird in that photo. Mirage?

 

[dragoneggs]

It doesn't confuse me one bit because we do it here now too. That way people don't fall asleep at the wheel. A lesson that we had to learn the hard way. Wanna drive a straight road, take a trip on US 50 across Nevada some day. <img src="http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=466589"/> It's the loneliest highway in America or so they say. I'd much rather drive it than take the Interstate though. When I get the chance and am in no particular hurry, I usually get off the Interstate and take alternate routes. Less traffic, more scenery, more history, better food and it usually doesn't add much if anything to the time but it sure does add to the enjoyment.

Coincidently I was driving on HWY 50 today in Carson City! Not the lonely part but funny to see this post. Back home now tonight though via our wonderful aviation industry! Have to say we flew pretty straight from Reno to Seattle.

 

[wngsprd]

When I get the chance and am in no particular hurry, I usually get off the Interstate and take alternate routes. Less traffic, more scenery, more history, better food and it usually doesn't add much if anything to the time but it sure does add to the enjoyment.

I'm with you on this.

 

[tallyho8]

We don't have the straightest roads since the Mississippi River twists and turns so much but we have the straightest, longest bridges as you can see in the photo of the Lake Ponchartrain causeway here.

 

[Wakey]

I'm in, hey Tally I grew up in River Ridge.

 

[tallyho8]

I'm in, hey Tally I grew up in River Ridge.

In the 70s River Ridge was a nice rural community. Now it's so overpopulated I moved across the river. This area is about the same as River Ridge was in 1960.

 

[jcummins]

Someone keep screwing with the location markers....or the map controls are flaky. Every time I look....it changes.

 

[ovrszd]

Someone keep screwing with the location markers....or the map controls are flaky. Every time I look....it changes.

Man I can't imagine someone taking the time to do something so petty.

 

[jcummins]

Man I can't imagine someone taking the time to do something so petty.

I know. It must be the software.

 

[daugen]

I had to laugh, I started out with the tractor, tried to make it orange, that didn't work, and then realized it covered half of Eastern NC. Back to the regular icon, which is now Kubota orange.
I have the page stored as a favorite and check in once in a while to see who has been added. It used to be when you added your name you wound up at the bottom of the list, then it looks like they all got scrambled. Who cares, we need more pins from New Zealand! Maybe someone could import a little lamb icon...

I did notice that now the icons are labeled. Whoever did that, thanks, until it gets too crowded.

 

[Wagtail]

I did notice that now the icons are labeled. Whoever did that, thanks, until it gets too crowded.

I just looked... someone changed my icon to a 'GOLD star'. Ta for that!

I feel ever so special.

 

[Jim Shooz]

. Who cares, we need more pins from New Zealand! Maybe someone could import a little lamb icon....

No lambs around near me. Just acres and acres of Kiwifruit.

 

[newbury]

This is a nice idea and could be very valuable.

There was or is, a a
Thread with Florida members, and I actually live within 10 miles of some and 50 miles of many. Kinda cool, but it does make you second think any talk about work/career changes/ect. You really don't know if your boss is on here; and I, like a fool, used my name as my name..

Are ya scared I'll know where you are and come visit ya???? He** Greg, I can Google Search you and find ya!!!!

Not to be a buzz killer, but post a lot of pictures of all your toys, including insides of some barns with inadvertent pics of other stuff, and where you exactly live on a national/international forum.... just sounds wrong. But maybe it is just me....

Very valid concerns. Think of the perp that rswyan wrote about finding where all of us keep our equipment, especially all the shiny new tractors small enough to be driven into a small inconspicuous box van.

On another forum I actually had the forum owner EMAIL me that he was going to come visit and implied physical harm because I kept posting about sawmills (then being sold by Harbor Freight) NOT being cheap chinese junk (they were built in New York). And apparently the same guy had threatened others with physical harm also.

There have also been threads here (mainly in unFriendly Politics) where members have gotten very aggravated with each other, and if one of those guys went "off his meds" bad things might happen.

I'm in, coastal NC and waving to Bostic from the East. And I see Wingsprd and David/MFW live right close to each other. I'm surprised he doesn't call you when he gets stuck in his driveway Billy....

We all want our privacy, but you know you are curious...
I spent good money on an alarm system and video monitoring; let the bad guys come and smile to the camera; I'd rather know where
the rest of you are.
but let's all have a gentlemen's agreement not to abuse the privacy issues of this map. No rotten apples...

Geez, I didn't know one could customize; better go back and make mine orange, or red, or green.

Gentleman's agreements are only kept by gentlemen.

It could be an interesting visual, I made a map on Google and allowed everyone the ability to edit it. To add yourself, just type your address (you don't need to be more specific than City and State if you're worried about other members showing up unannounced), click the search button and when it goes there, click add to map. Right now it zooms in on me but, as more people add themselves, it'll spread to a wider view.

Here's the link - TBN Members - Google Drive

And if you save the file as a .kmz you can open it in Google Earth Pro and "fly" from one members place to another. Or closely take a look at another TBN'ers property.

Eddie's island


One of my Mississippi properties


And then you can run flight simulator

I worked my 37 years in the Army GIS lab and think all GIS/aerial mapping applications are excellent. With data like this it enhances our knowledge of members topography.

 

[tallyho8]

And to think, I've had my name address and telephone number in the phone book for half a century. And now people can Google me and find out practically everything about me. Maybe I should go into hiding.

 

[California]

re privacy - first ten years posting online I used my real name, no problem. It's still out there on the Yahoo Yanmar and Subaru lists, and others. I recall posting in alt.folklore.urban and alt.folklore.computers two years before Y2K, about the consultants hired by our agency to prep for the event. They included battery-operated wall clocks and a pallet of retired Mac monitors in their survey of potentially Y2K-sensitive electronic hardware, an obvious boondoggle.

Then ... in 2003 some spammer got ahold of software that was written to spam thousands of messages into Usenet groups - a Denial of Service attack - and modified it to send massive quantities of spam emails. I unexpectedly received 10,000 bounce messages each from a different ISP saying the Viagra spam with my real name and email in the 'Reply To' field couldn't be delivered because 'Recipient unknown here'. Every field in the headers of the returned messages had a different From, To, Posted Via; and some other fields randomized. And every spam message had different random characters at the bottom to make each unique. Somebody had harvested a huge list of valid emails and used the list to populate the fields in his spam engine.

In addition to those machine generated bounce messages I got a few real email replies from outraged recipients. "I don't have a problem, why did you send me this? Is it a joke from my ex?" Funniest one was from a lady in the tourism bureau of Alabama or Georgia who went on for a few paragraphs about how offended she was to receive this on her work email where her boss was sure to see it.

When I joined TBN in 2004 was the first time I decided the internet had evolved to where it would be a good idea to post from a screen name instead of my own name. TBN was small then, I grabbed 'California' before someone else got it. And relevant to this map thread, there were almost no members in the West back then.


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Added -
I'm an hour north of San Francisco. Think I'll leave it at that.

 

[California]

Population density in the US:

World, link to Wikipedia:

User:Cmglee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[dragoneggs]

TBN Members

posting the link again for those interested in exposing themselves.

 

[bigtiller]

I'm in. Hope it works.

 

[farmeratheart]

I'm in