yesterday josh and i were playing around on google maps and found this wonderful user-created map. the author is named eddy van mourik (at least that's what i'm guessing from his handle) and he had worked as a mailman for four years on the southern side of rotterdam. the map shows highlights of his route labeled with little personal memories.
there are gems like Herkingenstraat 36: "The people that lived here would have their heating on really high. When I would stick my hand in their mailbox it would be warm.
Warm and hairy."
also Dirkslandhof 58: "A very very pretty girl lived here. One day she was not there anymore. Her mail kept coming for over a year."
if you're there, i also recommend checking out his map called 'Empowering bikeride #1' that shows a 95km bike ride he took.
1 comment:
Hi there, A friend who had googled me alerted me that you had written something about my googlemaps.
It's nice to see someone found them and enjoyed them. I am an Artist and often work in similar ways of "spacial storytelling". I worked as a mailman to supplement my income for a couple years but have since switched to working in an outdoors store which offers more freedom to travel.
Unfortunately these maps just kind of disappeared into my blog somewhere and haven't garnered much attention so it makes me happy to see someone took the time to look at them. Well anyways.. thanks! If you want, drop me a line or check out my website: www.eddyvanmourik.nl
Eddy
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