Heartland

If you haven't fiddled with Google Earth, you should.

It is a globe you can zoom in on. It is connected to Google, so has all the search functions of it's mother ship.

I find it fascinating.

Sad as it is, I have traced the whole NA leg of the tour.
I mapped the venues, and all the driving directions between them. (except the Mexican gigs)
I stuck in a couple of examples of other useful info locals can add, a good bar next to the Montreal show, and a Hotel near the Toronto venue.
It also has a Hotel button that will show all the hotels in the area, and you can link directly to them.
You can just zoom generally in on the city you need, type in the name of the venue, and in most cases it is the first result.

It can also show airports, restaurants, crime stats etc...
There is also a Google Earth Community button that puts up pointers to random things people felt worth mentioning.

If anyone is interested, go get Google Earth http://earth.google.com/ It's free.

And I can email (I don't have anywhere to put it online) whoever wants the file, it's quite small.



I should point out that Google Earth needs to be online to work.


Tony