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Fix, Bryan, 203
Flaming Lips, 227
Florida, as America’s phallus, 38
Four Corners Monument, 65
Frank, Ze, 240–42
Franken, Al, 38
Frémont, John C., 247
Friends, 36, 37
frillfin goby, 22
Frisch, Karl von, 25
Galileo, goofy hobbies of, 28
Gama, Vasco da, 92
Garriott, Richard, 196
Gaskin, Lilly, 122–24
geek culture, 112–19
gender, maps and, 139–41
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 36
geocaching, 186–211
appeal of, 189, 193–94, 195, 199, 202–3
author’s addiction to, 197, 201–3, 204–5, 207, 208–11
bizarrely avid practitioners of, 197–200, 202–4, 205–8
celebrity practitioners of, 193
extreme, 196
“First to Find” specialists, 203–5
invention of, 186–191
legal squabbles in, 190–91, 200–201
puzzles in, 196–97
ubiquity of caches, 191, 198–99
Geocaching.com, 189–91, 192, 193, 198, 201, 203, 209
geographic illiteracy, 32–55, 133–34, 146, 180, 233, 245
as American problem, 37–38, 42, 126, 151–52
dangers of, 50–52
historical, 36, 39
and parenting, 43–45
of political leaders, 36–38
geography
academic, 45–49, 51–52, 55, 133–34
and journalists, 39–40
defined, 46–47, 78
ignorance of (see geographic illiteracy)
geoslavery, 227–228
geotagging, 225, 227–28
Glenn, John, 25–26
global information systems (GIS), 47, 86, 227
Global Positioning System. See GPS
globes, 3, 41–42, 97, 222
gnomes, garden, people compared to, 159, 193
Good Morning America, 34, 54
Goode’s World Atlas, 85
Google Map Maker, 176, 228–29
Google Maps/Google Earth, 176, 214–221, 224–25, 226–28
discoveries using, 220
and geopolitics, 64, 217–19, 224–25
National Geographic Bee sponsors, 126
origin of, 214–15
Google Street View, 175, 216, 218, 227
Gorbachev, Mikhail, cartographic birthmark of, 6
GPS
games, 191, 237–41 (see also geocaching)
navigation, 140, 192, 232–33, 236, 248
satellites, 186–87, 194–95
graphicacy, 51–52
grazing, correct orientation for, 220
Great Wall of j76
China, visibility from space, 26
Groening, Matt, 26, 28
Groundspeak. See Geocaching.com
Guffey, Bill, 216
Guillebeau, Chris, 163–64
Guinness Book of World Records¸ 159, 164
“Guerrilla Public Service,” 171
Gumbel, Bryant, 35
Haiti, 2010 earthquake, 228–30
Hakimzadeh, Farhad, 96
Half.com, Oregon, 69
Hall, Ed, 190–91, 199, 201
Hammond Medallion World Atlas, 1–2, 6
Handel, Georg Friedrich, 98
Harbison, Robert, 52–53, 120
Hardy, Thomas, 119
Harrison, Benjamin, 67
Harrison, John, 86
Harry Potter series (Rowling), 112, 199–200, 213
Hasan Dag, 7
Heart of Darkness (Conrad), 3
Hébert, John 56–63, 67, 68, 72, 74–75, 78
Helgren, David, 32–36, 40, 42, 47–48, 54–55
helium, 219–20
Hemphill, Bert, 150
Hibberts Gore, Maine, 4
Highpointers Club, 155–57, 165
Hillary, Edmund, 79, 119
hippocampus, 17, 233
Hitler, Adolf, possibly created by maps, 175
Hobbes, Thomas, 99
Hobbit, The (Tolkien), 114–16, 119
Hogenauer, Alan, 157–58
Holden, Peter, 156–57
Holy Land, maps of, 101–2
Hooker, Joseph, 9–10
How to Lie with Maps (Monmonier), 47
Hudson, Christopher, 53–54
hypsometric maps, 6–7
imprinting, 15
Internet
creator of “roadgeek” phenomenon, 168
empowering map collectors, 91–92
geocaching born on, 188
Library of Congress maps on, 59
and place, 225–29
See also Google Maps/Google Earth; location-based technologies; maps: digital
interstate highways, 168–70
Iran, 72–73
Irish, Jeremy, 189–91, 193
Islandia (Wright), 105–7, 114
Jarrett, Alex, 237–38
Jennings, Caitlin, 181–82, 244, 248
Jennings, Dylan, 1, 10, 62, 173, 181–82, 192–96, 204, 248–49
Jennings, Ken
boring dream journal of, 15, 135
childhood of, 1–7, 9–11, 13–15, 29–31, 108–9, 244, 246
efficiency nerd, 16
game show contestant, 15, 39–40, 125, 128
geocaching addict, 197, 201–3, 204–5, 207, 208–11
grandparents of, 6, 14–15, 246–47
maphead friends of, 10, 20–21, 108–9, 244
nerdy college roommates of, 11, 113
Pacific Northwest native, 14, 30–31
parents of, 1, 6, 29–30, 93, 246
potentially mistaken for pedophile, 200
in Seoul, 15, 29–31, 44, 72, 93, 151
travels of, 18–19, 65, 69, 151
Jennings, Mindy, 91, 155, 181–82, 193, 244
essential goodness and purity of, 18