Design
Meet the Explorer Solving the Mysteries of Google Maps
A French multimedia artist invites your web-map queries with the promise to (eventually) provide a real-world answer.
Perusing the world on Google Maps, especially in "Earth" mode, invites as many questions as it answers. Why does that island disappear when you change to "map" view? Is that an outcropping of rocks or a herd of cows in that little town? How does it feel to stand where those three national borders converge?
French artist Diane Rabreau is on a mission to solve these visual mysteries. On her site, Diane Goes For You, she asks "players" from around the world to submit location-specific Google Maps queries, with the promise that, one day, she'll travel to the coordinates and produce a response. The one rule: The answer can't already be found on the web.