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Re:Map Shows How a Location Has Changed over the Past 750M Y... by jamesrcole on Monday September 09, 2019 @06:32PM (#20923201)
That's a really cool map. I'd love to be able to click a button and have it show the locations of (say) major world cities, so that I can see surprising adjacencies. So if I look up the location of my hometown 300 million years ago, I can see if there's any places it is far away from today that it was actually much closer to then. It'd help contextualise the location you've entered.
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Re:Map Shows How a Location Has Changed over the Past 750M Y... by mncharity on Monday September 09, 2019 @09:07PM (#20924205)
Perhaps a game? Perhaps of minimizing inter-city walking/swimming/flying physical travel, for time travelers whose position when time traveling is anchored to the plate? So "Start at city A. ... Now, fly to Mumbai, and ride it time-forward across the Tethys Sea to Asia. Then fly to D, time-backwards to Gondwana, and fly to E (goal). Distance flown: N km. Distance drifted: N km. Time traveled: N Ma."

Note that the existing app can simultaneously show more than one city. I missed that at first.

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