Johnny Cash Has Been Everywhere (Man)

That was delightful. Reminds me of a Google Maps hack from back in the day that tracked Sir Mix-a-Lot’s trip through the Seattle area as documented in the song Posse on Broadway.

figbert• 3 years ago

Is there a link to a version of this that's still live? Would love to check it out.

pallas_athena• 3 years ago

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?msa=0&mid=137fb_IEU6qPR...

https://i.imgur.com/JoTEkrs.jpg

laen• 3 years ago

Devil's Lake didn't populate, not sure why, maybe too difficult to disambiguate? It's a city in North Dakota, but state parks in Oregon and Wisconsin.

anonu• 3 years ago

The data in the javascript indicates it in ND:

{ "name": "Devils Lake", "full_name": "Devils Lake, ND 58301, USA", "lat": 48.112779, "lng": -98.8651202 },

NoZebra120vClip• 3 years ago

populate

disambiguate

state

indicate

Devil's Lake

https://youtu.be/Pr-Vfnd7Yno?si=ivrE5_ph4WPrzWdD

harry8• 3 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I've_Been_Everywhere

Placenames were all originally in Australia, adapted for the north american market.

singingfish• 3 years ago

Also shout out to the Farrelly Brothers version https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aunty_Jack_Sings_Wollongong

mixdup• 3 years ago

There were a lot of places that didn't map--some that were transcribed correctly and exist as places in the US, and some that didn't map because they were transcribed incorrectly

pentagrama3• 3 years ago

With Open Street Map is possible to self host a project like this?

Like download a static full map and host it, for this project doesn't matter that will not get updated.

butz• 3 years ago

You can download map tiles or build them yourself at required zoom level. But what might be even more interesting, especially for historical project, to use an era appropriate map.

pentagrama3• 3 years ago

Delightful! This small ideas bring joy to the internet.

Wondering what will happen if this where made with a song of a current mainstream popstar baked by a big label and go viral. Will be shut down or will be allowed as a marketing strategy?

pentagrama3• 3 years ago

As viewing this on my phone, will like to enlarge those buttons a bit and make it more mobile friendly. Send it to my father but not sure if he will be able tap on that small things on even understand what is about :(

rcme• 3 years ago

As computer scientists, we really should assume he took the shortest path between the final set of destinations rather than travel between them sequentially.

0x6c6f6c• 3 years ago

Assume, or optimize for.

taylorius• 3 years ago

Was thinking the same thing - travelling salesman problem, no?

codethief• 3 years ago

Traveling country musician :)

M3L0NM4N• 3 years ago

Dijkstra's been everywhere, man.

gnfargbl• 3 years ago

Johnny Cash spent much of the 1950s and 1960s addicted to alcohol, barbiturates and amphetamines. Whilst we should assume he was probably familiar with contemporary work on finding shortest paths in weighted graphs, and almost certainly read the papers etc, it is likely that his addiction kept him from paying the proper attention that he would otherwise surely have done. Who knows how different the landscape of theoretical computer science might have been, had Cash spent more energy on algorithms and less on setting fires inside camper vans?

ZeroGravitas• 3 years ago

I'm not sure if he would have covered that kind of material during his time with the Cryptographic Intelligence Unit anyway.

https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/United_States_Air_F...

wkat4242• 3 years ago

Also, tours depend on a lot more than travel. Venue availability, other major events impacting attendance, advertising and marketing.

Travel optimization isn't really a priority.

JasonFruit• 3 years ago

I think the final picture adequately expresses Cash's response to your suggestion.

joelrwilliams1• 3 years ago

This is the Internet content I live for.

roflchoppa• 3 years ago

There’s a great bar in San Jose, “Cash Only”, get the frozen Irish coffee you won’t be disappointed.

dmurray• 3 years ago

I'm also a fan of this map of Area Codes in Which Ludacris Claims to have Hos.

https://archive.ph/fwcw7

zeristor2• 3 years ago

Of this ilk Lemon Jelly released “Ramblin’ Man” a bloke reflecting on his past.

Going through a list of places he’s been to:

https://genius.com/Lemon-jelly-ramblin-man-lyrics

Of note, the first letters some way down spells out BAGPUSS SEES ALL THINGS

Which dates both it, and me.

danparsonson• 3 years ago

I still sometimes sing "we will fix it!" in my head when I'm going to fix something <3

zeristor2• 3 years ago

The Marvellous mechanical mouse organ seems to be a bit like how some start ups fake it until you make it.

If someone says they can make chocolate digestive biscuits from bread crumbs and butter beans don’t fall for it:

https://youtu.be/bBFwClllXQs

dboreham• 3 years ago

Including Kinghorn.

Jugurtha• 3 years ago

I love this, even though "everywhere" here is similar to how Aliens view Earth in movies: The United States of America.

tim333• 3 years ago

They came to Jo'burg once. They seem to like places with tax incentives for movie making https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1136608/

trevithick• 3 years ago

This is really cool. I thought it was Hank Snow, not Johnny Cash, who made this popular. Not that it matters. (Looks like it was both, and a boatload of other people too.)

markphip• 3 years ago

Really nice! I wonder how they decided which Springfield to use? Looks like they went with Missouri

micromacrofoot• 3 years ago

It says "Tennesse Chicopee" in the data (which attempts to look up a "Chicopee Trail" in North Carolina) but Chicopee is actually a city near Springfield Massachusetts.

Chicopee being a Nipmuk word referring to the local river.

The Nipmuks were pushed out of the region by settlers in the late 17th century (despite their best efforts to stay... their numbers were dramatically reduced by disease brought by the Europeans).

beezle• 3 years ago

Someone should do this with the Dead.

cheesedoodle• 3 years ago

Music Hackday was great (Infinite Gagnam Style anyone? [0]) and I especially remember Reykjavik 2012 as a personal transformative event! I made Horisfy [1] and and won best hack, very similar to Johnny Cash, but riding horses on Iceland.

This was the time before Echonest was bought by Spotify and Tomahawk (used in Johnny Cash hack) was sprawling.

Fun memories :=)

[0] https://blog.echonest.com/post/34826507401/infinite-gangnam-... [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20121031194040/https://wiki.musi...

rospaya2• 3 years ago

If you're into The Hold Steady (and you should be) the lyrics have a lot of references and the fandom does a great job of explaining them. The Clicks and hisses web has them all mapped as well.

https://clicksandhisses.com/map

Johnny Cash Has Been Everywhere (Man)

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