tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-09-15:446148shadowsparopen sky / shooting star / nothing else but who we areshadowspar2012-03-07T15:57:57Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2009-09-15:446148:73135Hunting the Elusive Red Mailbox2012-02-06T18:50:33Z2012-03-07T15:57:57Zpublic5<p>
So, over the holidays, I was looking for a place to post my Christmas
cards. Though I knew the location of a few mailboxen, and while I was
sure that they are all over the place, I realized that I didn't pass
one anywhere in my daily routine.
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When I got a moment, I had a look on the
<a href="http://www.postescanada.ca/">Canada</a>
<a href="http://www.canadapost.ca/">Post</a> website, figuring
they'd have a map or at least a list there. No such luck, which seems
strange -- you would think for sure that they keep records of all of
their mailboxes in some kind of
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_information_system">GIS</a>
or other.
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Happily, there is a
<a href="http://mathewhoy.tumblr.com/post/289706750/canada-post-red-mailbox-locations">collaborative Google Map</a>
where people can contribute in an attempt to enumerate all the
mailboxes in Canada. For some reason, though, my additions didn't take
-- maybe the map has hit the maximum number of placemarks or some such?
Only one thing to do, of course -- make
<a href="http://maps.google.ca/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=217970212894072823998.0004b5b5cfb171a563e63&ie=UTF8&t=m&z=14&vpsrc=1">my own map
of mailbox locations for Sault Ste Marie</a>.
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