- Falling Rain Genomics
FallingRain is a global mapping system analogous to GoogleMap, etc. It focuses on displaying terrain, airports, and railway lines. The maps are accessed by the names of towns, rather than by Latitudes and Longitudes. [cite book |title=Geographic Information |last=Johnson |first=Jenny Marie |year=2003 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=1573563927 |pages=p. 50 |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=e5KKcC6DAgUC&pg=PA50&dq=%22Falling+Rain+Genomics%22&num=100&client=firefox-a&sig=ACfU3U2nIt6O0BNf0wu1hCppY7LViny8NQ |accessdate=2008-08-30] The map for each town is displayed with two thumbnail sketches, one medium one for the country view and the other large one for the global overview.
Railway lines
Railway lines are shown by lines of red dots.
Closed railways
Both
MSN andFallingRain maps still show some closed railway lines such as theSierra Leone Government Railway closed in 1974 and the branch lines to Ajana and Yuna inWestern Australia .New Railways
A new railway from
Caracas toCúa opened in 2006, but is not yet shown by FallingRain.Namesakes
In some cases there are several towns in a single country with the same name, such as
Bingo, Burkina Faso . A search through the gazeteer will list them all. A google search seems to find only one.Elevation
FallingRain gives a spot elevation of the town which it is pointing at.
References
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
