talk about a grudge

in the spirit of my very real love for wikipedia (who doesn't love the "random page?"), i have started a love affair with a new wiki: wikimapia. the folks at wikimapia are enlisting us all to "describe the whole world" by providing descriptions of real places that we're familiar with and linking those descriptions to a satellite map that's zoomable to street level (a la google maps). it's an interesting endeavor, with people describing particular buildings and what's in them, area landmarks, cities in general, and on up/down the zoom-ometer.

besides it real (potential) value for giving us the chance to read local, lay identifications of previously unmapped and unimportant locales, there's this (click the map to see it bigger):