As a long-time contributor to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, it is natural for me to look there for information about Novgorod. I will return to that in a later post. Wikipedia also contains many photos of the city and its surroundings, stored on the separate subproject Wikimedia CommonsWikimedia Commons contains 21 million files (mostly still ( Read more... )

Both my Swedish hometown Linköping and Velikiy Novgorod in Russia are well covered in OpenStreetMap. This open-source map drawn by volunteers is often more up-to-date than commercial websites such as Google Maps. Google, of course, has the advantage of satellite images. Both cities are also covered in Google Street View. It covers large parts of ( Read more... )

A travel agency once advertised: "Columbus discovered America in 1492. Now it's your turn." It's never too late to make new discoveries, even if others have made them long ago ( Read more... )