Netherlands tag at the Vorg blog http://vorg.ca/tag/Netherlands All items Copyright 2001-2004 by their respective authors en-us http://vorg.ca/3360-Straatview wrote about Baarle-Hertog/Baarle-Nassau, a tiny town in Holland with a few dozen parcels of land belonging to Belgium. International borders run haphazardly through the town, dividing streets and buildings, like so:

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Well, it seems that Google maps has Streetviewed all of Holland and none of Belgium, resulting in Streetview stopping and starting at near-random intervals through Baarle-Nassau. My favourite part is that some of the Belgian parts have little parts inside them that belong to Holland. These tiny strips of Dutch land, some no bigger than a front yard, are streetviewed, while the Belgian parts are all cut off.]]> http://vorg.ca/3360-Straatview chrisdye Netherlands Belgium Google Maps Streetview 2010-05-04T00:23:46-04:00 http://vorg.ca/3360-Straatview#replies http://vorg.ca/3102-Zoetermeeriment Zoetermeer is a city (pop. 119,000) near The Hague and Rotterdam. On the city council website are Zoetermeer-themed computer games. One is a sort of SimZoetermeer, like SimCity except that the city grows according to the history of Zoetermeer from 1960 (when the town had only 6,000 people) to today. The other is Castle Zoetermeer. I haven't tried that one yet.

I think that all city council websites should have video games.]]> http://vorg.ca/3102-Zoetermeeriment chrisdye Netherlands games 2009-04-04T14:57:04-04:00 http://vorg.ca/3102-Zoetermeeriment#replies