Photograph: Ulrich Doering/Alamyīut this effect is also evident within a city. There is more geospatial digital data available for the city of Tokyo than for all of Africa. The amount of indexed Google Maps content per person is as much as 100 times greater in Scandinavia than in the Middle East or Central America Tokyo has more geospatial data than Africa.Ī busy retail street in Accra, Ghana. That information bias permeates the internet is not news, of course. Still others don’t appear on the internet at all. Others are obscured through their own ignorance. Some businesses exploit loopholes to advance their virtual prominence. A closer look, though, reveals that our digital mirror bears chinks and subtle distortions. In short, we now use the geoweb as though it were a perfect reflection of our world: 97% of US internet users, according to Google, look for local products and services online. Whether you want a pizza or a plumber, your search likely begins on a keyboard or touchscreen. Just as, in an earlier generation of the internet, Craigslist obliterated the utility of printed classified ads, so the geoweb has supplanted road maps, restaurant guides and the Yellow Pages. But in that time, the internet’s geospatial resources, or the “geoweb”, have developed enough intricacy, sophistication and responsiveness to become an indispensable consumer tool. This divergence would have been unremarkable only a few years ago. It goes without saying that any off-the-books establishment, from a taco cart or a sidewalk clothier to the truly illegal trades like drugs and prostitution, leaves little trace on the web. The challenge increases for the tax advisers, lawyers and medical professionals on the second or third floors. Many regular storefront businesses on Roosevelt Avenue are hard or impossible to find online. This neighbourhood, Jackson Heights, is a place where the commercial landscape confounds the vast reach of internet cartography. Olympya Beauty Salon, on Roosevelt off 78 th Street, doesn’t have any internet footprint at all. The same is true of J&C Delicias, a Colombian restaurant a few steps down 79 th Street, and Jeri’s Shim Myung Do, a martial arts school one block east. On the internet, however, Los Chuzos – a 24-year-old grilled meat and fresh juice counter owned by Castaño’s brother – wears a cloak of modern anonymity: it’s not on Google Maps. “When I say hamburger, you think about McDonald’s, right? When people say chuzos, they think about 79 th Street.” (A chuzo is Colombia’s answer to the kebab.) “Not just here, or in New Jersey or Miami,” he says, waving past the elevated train tracks in the vague direction of Latin America. Visit the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife at for additional information on bear safety.T o hear Carlos Castaño tell it, Los Chuzos y Algo Mas, the small eatery he manages on the corner of Roosevelt Avenue and 79 th Street in Queens, New York, is world-famous. Please report any damage or nuisance behavior to the park office. Never run from a bear! To report an aggressive bear, call 1-877-WARN-DEP (1-87) immediately. Do not approach or attract bears by making food available.
Use insect repellent, wear light-colored clothing, tuck pants into socks, stay on trails, check yourself when you get home, shower and wash clothes immediately.īlack bears are found throughout New Jersey. Pets must always be on a leash no longer than six feet in length and under the control of the owner. There are no trash receptacles in this park. It’s like crowdsourcing trash management! Bring a bag or two for trash, recycling and cleaning up after your pet. Whatever you carry into the park, plan on carrying it out too. Protect plants and animals and care for your parks by taking your trash with you. Īlcoholic beverages are not permitted in state parks, forests, recreation areas, golf courses, marinas, natural areas, historic sites, and preserves. State law prohibits the smoking of tobacco and use of electronic smoking (vaping) devices in all state parks, forests, historic sites, recreation areas, golf courses and marinas. Thank you for your help in protecting New Jersey’s natural and historic resources. This includes state parks, forests, recreation areas, golf courses, marinas, natural areas, historic sites, and preserves. Recreational use of ATVs is not permitted on NJ State Park Service property.
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