Re:Johnny Cash Has Been Everywhere
by logbiscuitswave on Friday September 15, 2023 @09:31PM
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That was delightful. Reminds me of a Google Maps hack from back in the day that tracked Sir Mix-a-Lot’s trip through the Seattle area as documented in the song Posse on Broadway.
Re:Johnny Cash Has Been Everywhere
by mixdup on Friday September 15, 2023 @10:48PM
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There were a lot of places that didn't map--some that were transcribed correctly and exist as places in the US, and some that didn't map because they were transcribed incorrectly
Re:Johnny Cash Has Been Everywhere
by butz on Saturday September 16, 2023 @02:39AM
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You can download map tiles or build them yourself at required zoom level. But what might be even more interesting, especially for historical project, to use an era appropriate map.
Re:Johnny Cash Has Been Everywhere
by pentagrama on Friday September 15, 2023 @11:27PM
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Delightful! This small ideas bring joy to the internet.
Wondering what will happen if this where made with a song of a current mainstream popstar baked by a big label and go viral. Will be shut down or will be allowed as a marketing strategy?
Re:Johnny Cash Has Been Everywhere
by pentagrama on Friday September 15, 2023 @11:28PM
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As viewing this on my phone, will like to enlarge those buttons a bit and make it more mobile friendly. Send it to my father but not sure if he will be able tap on that small things on even understand what is about :(
Re:Johnny Cash Has Been Everywhere
by rcme on Friday September 15, 2023 @11:29PM
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As computer scientists, we really should assume he took the shortest path between the final set of destinations rather than travel between them sequentially.
Re:Johnny Cash Has Been Everywhere
by gnfargbl on Saturday September 16, 2023 @06:05AM
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Johnny Cash spent much of the 1950s and 1960s addicted to alcohol, barbiturates and amphetamines. Whilst we should assume he was probably familiar with contemporary work on finding shortest paths in weighted graphs, and almost certainly read the papers etc, it is likely that his addiction kept him from paying the proper attention that he would otherwise surely have done. Who knows how different the landscape of theoretical computer science might have been, had Cash spent more energy on algorithms and less on setting fires inside camper vans?
Re:Johnny Cash Has Been Everywhere
by rospaya on Saturday September 16, 2023 @05:52PM
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One of the best trivia pieces I have is that he is likely the first American to know Stalin died while he was posted in Germany, decoding morse code traffic.
Re:Johnny Cash Has Been Everywhere
by tetris11 on Monday September 18, 2023 @03:59AM
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Yep. Seattle was an often missed point on the map for tours, until the punk/grunge evolved there. Then suddenly you couldn't stop people from driving that incredible distance from LA
Re:Johnny Cash Has Been Everywhere
by trevithick on Saturday September 16, 2023 @08:48AM
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This is really cool. I thought it was Hank Snow, not Johnny Cash, who made this popular. Not that it matters.
(Looks like it was both, and a boatload of other people too.)
Re:Johnny Cash Has Been Everywhere
by micromacrofoot on Saturday September 16, 2023 @09:17AM
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It says "Tennesse Chicopee" in the data (which attempts to look up a "Chicopee Trail" in North Carolina) but Chicopee is actually a city near Springfield Massachusetts.
Re:Johnny Cash Has Been Everywhere
by cheesedoodle on Saturday September 16, 2023 @03:52PM
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Music Hackday was great (Infinite Gagnam Style anyone? [0]) and I especially remember Reykjavik 2012 as a personal transformative event! I made Horisfy [1] and and won best hack, very similar to Johnny Cash, but riding horses on Iceland.
This was the time before Echonest was bought by Spotify and Tomahawk (used in Johnny Cash hack) was sprawling.
Re:Johnny Cash Has Been Everywhere
by rospaya on Saturday September 16, 2023 @05:57PM
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If you're into The Hold Steady (and you should be) the lyrics have a lot of references and the fandom does a great job of explaining them. The Clicks and hisses web has them all mapped as well.
Johnny Cash Has Been Everywhere (Man) (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30830222 - March 2022 (54 comments)
https://youtu.be/Uk2aHGjOdlQ?si=mIodxFSxrn7-t8Qj
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OZWi-mTkNU
or
https://i.imgur.com/JoTEkrs.jpg
{ "name": "Devils Lake", "full_name": "Devils Lake, ND 58301, USA", "lat": 48.112779, "lng": -98.8651202 },
disambiguate
state
indicate
Devil's Lake
https://youtu.be/Pr-Vfnd7Yno?si=ivrE5_ph4WPrzWdD
Placenames were all originally in Australia, adapted for the north american market.
Like download a static full map and host it, for this project doesn't matter that will not get updated.
Wondering what will happen if this where made with a song of a current mainstream popstar baked by a big label and go viral. Will be shut down or will be allowed as a marketing strategy?
https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/United_States_Air_F...
Travel optimization isn't really a priority.
https://archive.ph/fwcw7
Going through a list of places he’s been to:
https://genius.com/Lemon-jelly-ramblin-man-lyrics
Of note, the first letters some way down spells out BAGPUSS SEES ALL THINGS
Which dates both it, and me.
If someone says they can make chocolate digestive biscuits from bread crumbs and butter beans don’t fall for it:
https://youtu.be/bBFwClllXQs
This was the time before Echonest was bought by Spotify and Tomahawk (used in Johnny Cash hack) was sprawling.
Fun memories :=)
[0] https://blog.echonest.com/post/34826507401/infinite-gangnam-... [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20121031194040/https://wiki.musi...
https://clicksandhisses.com/map