Golublog: An Anthropology Blog

Some quick links for people trying to turn Google Earth’s pictures of PNG into intelligible maps:

“Ethnologue maps”:http://www.ethnologue.com/show_map.asp?name=PG — Ethnologue has made PNG language maps available for free consultation on the web. Vaguely remember Hogbin’s _The Leader and the Led_ and want to find Wogeo? Look no further. The comfortingly bounded, internally discrete, color-coded language groupings here are soothingly panoptic. *Sigh* if only ethnicity and culture really worked that way. Well at least it is good for finding stuff.

“Airstrips of Papua New Guinea”:http://users.bigpond.net.au/billsview/airstrips.htm — A quick way to locating towns and patrol posts. You can enter the lat/long coordinates in Google Earth and it will zoom right in. Paiela is listed as 0522.40 14258.48 — just put 05 22.40′ S 142 58.48′ E into Google Earth and it’ll zoom right in.

If some truly brave soul wants to create a complete set of Airstrip placemarks and email it to me, I’ll make it publically available — I know this information is coded somewhere, but not somewhere as easily findable as my blog, and not for free. Alternately let it be known that I’m also collecting coordinates for people’s fieldsites, so if you want to email me the placemark where you did fieldwork do that and I’ll add you to The Big List. But more on that project for another time.

UPDATE:
“fallingrain.com”:http://www.fallingrain.com/world/PP/ has many lat/long coordinates of places. Curiously organized and random, but still useful.

“Geonet name server PNG locations”:http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/cntyfile/pp.zip — Official USA Government Stuff