Documenting the Summer Olympics
August 22, 2008 – 8:12 amHi, Avinash here, one of the admins at Concharto and creator of The Play. I’ll be posting some sample ways you can add to Concharto and document specific events.
As the Beijing Olympics wind down and become part of history, it feels like a perfect time to discover where these places are located. One thing that always interests me when I visit Olympic sites is which particular buildings hosted which events. As a sample, I’ve posted where the 2004 Summer Olympics events were located in Athens, Greece.
This first map contains most of the stadiums and arenas for all the Olympic events in Greece; notice that the shot put was held in Olympia in Elis. For a closer look at the events in the Athens area, the bottom map provides a more detailed description.
Of course this is not a complete picture of those Summer Games–other possibilities for new users to edit; this includes placing in the marathon route (which retraced the classic route from Marathon to Athens), the Olympic torch route, and detailing specific events within each sport. And we haven’t even gotten started with Beijing 2008!
Anyone want to help out? Register with Concharto and get started!
