http://www.irishcentral.com/topics/cartography IrishCentral cartography en-us http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/google-spots-an-acre-of-ireland-in-upstate-new-york-159412535.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/irish-media-nation/google-spots-an-acre-of-ireland-in-upstate-new-york-159412535.html Mon, 18 Jun 2012 06:15:19 PDT
You know the old line about the Great Wall of China being the only manmade object visible from outer space?  Now Google Maps and Google Earth are bringing the whole world into focus, right down this acre’s worth of Ireland, rendered in red brick in the Irish Park in the upstate New York town of East Durham  It’s the largest county-accurate map of Ireland in the worldThe park was built in 2001 at a cost of 500,000, funded in part by New York State, Greene County and the Michael J Quill Irish Cultural & Sports Centre, Inc READ MORE ]]>