I will be travelling for a couple of weeks, while I'm on my adventure I am going to take you on your very own adventure.The board game "monopoly" celebrated its 75th anniversary last year. The original design was created by Quaker Elizabeth Magie in 1903. She wanted to demonstrate through play that property enriched landlords and impoverished tenants.
However it was in 1935 that the Parker Brothers took the concepts of this design and created the game we now know as monopoly. As part of the 75th anniversary celebrations of this later game, Ordnance Survey worked with monopoly to produce a bespoke map and discover where GO actually is.
Using this map you are going to travel around the monopoly board over the next few weeks.
We begin today with GO: Lambeth North Tube Station.
“By using Ordnance Survey’s latest digital product, OS VectorMap District, we were able to accurately locate “Go”. We mapped the positions of Mayfair and Old Kent Road, which sit either side of “Go”, and then accurately calculated that Lambeth North tube station was the central point between the two and therefore the location of “Go”quote from - http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/media/news/2010/aug/monopoly.html
21 comments:
Interesting. To collect salary for a start can't be a bad thing. ;-)
WHat a terrific thing: to locate GO.
And what a good series of posts to cover your absence. Lots of effort for which I thankyou.
Enjoy your breake ...
Cool idea! Enjoy your holiday Mo :-)
Fabulous! I can now say I've been to GO (although nobody gave me any money).
This is excellent. Thank you. Ejoy your travel.
You've scheduled all those posts?
How efficient of you.
Now I want to know where you will be all this while :-)
Nosey me.
Oh this sounds like fun! And, I hope you have fun on your travels! Enjoy!
very nice!
Brilliant, what fun!!! Have a great trip :o)
I agree, great idea. Have a fab holiday! I'll be in London on 19th May. Any chance to meet up for a coffee? Ciao. A.
Sounds fun - have a great trip.
Ooo, what a great idea. Enjoy your trip!
Looking forward to some fun even though you are away! Enjoy.
This shall be fun
Enjoy your trip
:)
It was actually Charles Darrow who is credited with inventing Monopoly...and he claimed until his dying day that he had never seen 'The Landlord Game' which was designed by the Quaker woman. He sold the rights for Monopoly to Parker Brothers...
Have fun on your break...
Beautiful idea - a great way to get round London!
I feel the whoosh of the train through this image.
How very clever! I grew up with the American version so getting to see all of these places is going to be fun :-)
What a fun idea to cover your absence. I love seeing how different your Monopoly board looks from the version in the US. Ours is just a big square with the properties listed round the perimeter -- your board is far more visually interesting.
Enjoy your trip!
Interesting!
I look forward to my "Monopoly" journey, and I hope your holiday/break will be nice!
Oh my gosh! That was such fun!! Wha a great idea for a series of posts - you must have had such fun doing it!!
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