cryptome eyeball series

Not new, but if you have never made a visit and/or haven't been back for a bit this can be an interesting site...

The Eyeballing project was developed by activist John Young and uses publicly available maps to give a view into some of these secret and sensitive sites across America.

The project consists of series of individual 'eyeballing' web pages, each of which focuses on a particular military base, intelligence facility or other sensitive site, like nuclear power plants and dams. Eyeballing exploits the potential of hypertext to author a cartographic collage, piecing together a diverse range of aerial photographs, topographic maps at different scales, photographs, along with expert commentary by Young, annotated with corrections and clarifications emailed in from (anonymous) readers. There are also hyperlinks to supplementary documents and other relevant websites, while individual eyeballs pages are themselves cross referenced by hyperlinks. To produce the eyeballs Young only utilises public sources of maps and imagery, typically topographic mapping from MapQuest and aerial photography from Terraserver [1]. Even though the 'eyeballs' have an unpolished, almost amateurish look to them, the series represents a novel and valuable atlas of hidden places.