{"id":5084,"date":"2017-02-23T07:47:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T15:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=5084"},"modified":"2017-02-21T21:47:45","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T05:47:45","slug":"explore-earth-via-drawing-in-googles-land-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/23\/explore-earth-via-drawing-in-googles-land-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"Explore Earth via drawing in Google&#8217;s &#8220;Land Lines&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/the-simpsons-did-it\">Simpsons Did It<\/a>!!\u201d So goes the cry that lets you know that your unique new idea <em>just ain\u2019t so unique<\/em>. And so it went, at least inside my head, a couple of months ago when I sent Google\u2019s Geo team a suggestion:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/30\/google-quickdraw-is-magical\/\">Quick, Draw!<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrapattern.com\/\">Terrapattern<\/a> make me wonder whether you could offer a simple drawing UI for Earth that would let people find things that roughly match what they draw\u2026\u00a0I can see it being a playful, serendipitous way to explore.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah, they told me: Sit tight, because we\u2019re about to launch\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lines.chromeexperiments.com\/\">Land Lines<\/a>. It lets you &#8220;Start with a line, let the planet complete the picture.\u201d Take it for a spin yourself, or just watch how it works:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w6-LK9BOVTA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NewImage-24.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"598\" height=\"600\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/w6-LK9BOVTA\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Simpsons Did It!!\u201d So goes the cry that lets you know that your unique new idea just ain\u2019t so unique. And so it went, at least inside my head, a couple of months ago when I sent Google\u2019s Geo team a suggestion:\u00a0 Quick, Draw! and Terrapattern make me wonder whether you could offer a simple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5084"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5084"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5088,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5084\/revisions\/5088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}