A Bologna il problema Stradelli Guelfi, vale a dire ‘come arrivare al mare senza rimanere imbottigliati in autostrada o sulle statali’ è un classico che tiene banco dagli anni ‘60. Molti ‘cioccapiatti’ si sono auto-eletti a massime eminenze sull’argomento ma, anche nell’era GPS, capita di ritrovarli vagare disperati, ormai in territori ferraresi più che romagnoli.
Personalmente, malgrado non frequenti più la riviera romagnola, ricordo di aver sempre rinunciato tra Castel Guelfo e Sasso Morelli (siamo ancora all’altezza di Imola o poco più insomma) ritornando sulla via Emilia o lo San Vitale.
Dopo il totale disinteresse mostrato dai senesi per la mappa delle contrade pubblicata su questo blog a luglio, ci riprovo! ..la mappa sottostante dovrebbe risolvere la questione Stradelli Guelfi una volta per tutte; il percorso Bologna-San Lazzaro РCervia ̬ rieditabile trascinando col mouse i vari punti intermedi come quelli di arrivo e partenza; quindi viene utile anche volendo giungere a Rimini РRiccione, Cesenatico, etcetera.
Cliccando su ‘view larger map’ in basso a sinistra aprite la pagina con le indicazioni stradali passo-passo (stampabili!).
Questa pagina ha una licenza piadina-ware! se arrivate a destinazione e volete mostrare gratitudine , attendo inviti !
the map of the historic Contrade for the Palio horserace in Siena
Like all foreigners visiting Siena for the palio horse-race, and despite my 4 years living in Siena, I keep getting confused about the contrade territories.
Many times I tried searching the internet for this and could not find any clear mappings of the contrade, so, while the original 1729 document establishing the boundaries might be interesting for historians (both for the ancient italian language and the many changes in Siena’s urban planning) here’s my little ‘Google Earth ready’ KML contribution to help visitors in orienteering around and get more involved in the palio race itself, with a clear georeferenced mind-map of the contendants.
The file, still under ‘heavy’ (?) development, was build by translating in latitude, longitude coordinates a sketch I found in a local leaflet, so excuse any approximations; icons are from http://www.ilpalio.org/ and http://www.paliodisiena.biz/; you can search for your hotel or any address in Siena with GoogleEarth’s search box and see in which of the contrade that location actually is.
Graphical charts with the historic wins stats of each of the contrade will soon appear in the pop-up infoboxes; a google Maps porting of the same KML file is also being developed, but still needs major fixes both at the javascript and the layout (css), take a look anyhow: the ‘Palio di Siena’ on google Maps: Contrade.
Hopefully I’ll be able to find some time to finish this stuff in time for the 2009 palio events: july 2nd, august 16th – see you aruond in Piazza del Campo!
Web sites as graphs: enter a URL and watch the DOM unfold in real time, simulating a set of particles reaching a minimum-energy equilibrium state.Found this randomly through Flickr; visually fascinating!Start from the HTML root element (black dot) and follow through your DIVs (green dots) hierarchy, then images and links (violet and blue respectively) etc.It can be easily extended into a semantic-structure analyzer, a validation tool; add mouse-over events showing nodes’ content and you have the coolest User Interface for any DOM-inspector Firefox extension (Firebug->Inspect included).The code is there, anyone …?
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