The Tragedy of Edmund Fitzgerald - #googlemaps #googlewave
Edmund Fitzgerald sank 34 years ago on November 10th, 1975 in Lake Superior. All 29 crew members lost their lives that day. I have created a Google Maps Mashup which shows the exact location of the tragedy in Lake Superior along with hometowns of the mariners on Edmund Fitzgerald who died. I have also created a Google Wave gadget of this mashup.
When the map first loads up it shows the location where the ship sank along with a video of the song from Gordon Lightfoot which is dedicated to Edmund Fitzgerald. There is a link above the video ("Click here for mariners hometown") which when clicked shows the hometowns of mariners hometown. The information window above the mariner markers has a forward and back arrows which when clicked takes you to the next mariner location.
Labels: edmund_fitzgerald, Google_Maps, google_wave
posted by Virender Ajmani @ 9:33 AM
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Thanks for putting this together. My family was close friends of the aunt and uncle of one of those lost, Fred Beetcher. Two or three years before Fred took me and my dad on a tour of a ship. You could do that in those days much easier then now. I'm not sure if it was the Edmund we toured and my dad couldn't remember the name either, could have been another that he was on at the time.
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