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The Register - Offbeat: Geek's Guide

Away from Oktoberfest, Munich's museums serve science on tap Getting up close with the Concorde, Concordski, and Buran Geek's Guide to Britain: Newport Transporter Vaccine dreams: A trip to Oxford to see a biscuit tin, some bed pans and ChAdOx1 nCov-19 Western Approaches Museum: WRENs, wargames, and victory in the Atlantic The Eigiau Dam Disaster: Deluges and deceit at the dawn of hydroelectric power The Wight stuff: Marconi and the island, when working remotely on wireless comms meant something very different Rewriting the checklists: 50 years since Apollo 13 reported it 'had a problem' – and boffins saved the day Come kneel with us at UK's Cathedral, er, Oil Rig of the Canal: Engineering masterpiece Anderton Boat Lift German scientists, Black Knights and the birthplace of British rocketry Talking a Blue Streak: The ambitious, quiet waste of the Spadeadam Rocket Establishment Orford Ness: Military secrets and unique wildlife on the remote Suffolk coast The Central Telegraph Office was serving spam 67 years before vikings sang about it on telly What made a super high-tech home in Victorian England? Hydroelectric witchery, for starters Are you aware of the gravity of the situation on Mars? Why yes, say boffins: We rejigged Curiosity to measure it Blueprint of modern construction can be found in a tech cluster... of 19th century England Mirror mirror on sea wall, spot those airships, make Kaiser bawl Take-off crash 'n' burn didn't kill the Concorde, it was just too bloody expensive to maintain Fancy a viaduct? We have a wrought Victorian iron marvel to sell you Life's a beach – then you're the comms nexus of the British Empire and Marconi-baiting hax0rs Worcestershire's airborne electronics warfare wonderland Hotter than the Sun: JET – Earth’s biggest fusion reactor, in Culham Fancy that! Craft which float over everything on a cushion of air Everything you never knew about mail: The Postal Museum opens Extreme trainspotting on Britain's highest (and windiest) railway Lochs, rifle stocks and two EPIC sea gates: Thomas Telford's Highland waterway Going underground: The Royal Mail's great London train squeeze Turing, Hauser, Sinclair – haunt computing's Cambridge A-team stamping ground Avoiding Liverpool was the aim: All aboard the world's ONLY moving aqueduct Inside Electric Mountain: Britain's biggest rechargeable battery
Reg reader turns Geek's Guides to Britain into Geek's Map...
2017-07-21 · via The Register - Offbeat: Geek's Guide

A forward-thinking Reg reader has put the entirety of our Geeks’ Guide series onto a Google Map, for your navigational and geographically organised reading pleasure.

Smart cookie Gypsythief has assembled the Geek's Map to Britain, which features all of our Geek's Guide features about lesser-known places of British technological heritage.

“None of the article summaries mentioned whereabouts the article was set,” he said in his Reg forum post announcing his rather neat project. “I was going to have to grep through each article to find out.”

“And if I was going to do that, I figured I might as well record where they all were, and bung 'em on a map for easy future reference,” he added.

Hence he created the Geek’s Map to Britain. He does say there’s a “quite obvious” Easter Egg, for those with a minute or two to kill.

Each Geek's Guide feature is set out as not only a fascinating illumination of a hitherto obscure site in the past, but as a practical guide to go out and find the place. Each includes GPS co-ordinates, a postal address, opening hours and (occasionally) directions to the nearest hostelry for a post-geekery pint.

Stay tuned for future Geek's Guides on the underground Mail Rail postal tube train network, the Hovercraft Museum, and potentially something historical and aviation-themed... ®