Next door, separated by a chain-link fence, is the control center where Marines have helped Afghan officers replace static maps with Google Earth, plot civilian buildings and ground troops with multicolored icons and process intelligence from the field.
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As soon as the sun rises, I pass a guard squatting outside his hut by the dormitory gate, and walk up the road through Kigali's patchwork of dwellings and red earth plots.
According to Scholte, 'supraterritorial' relations are social connections that transcend territorial geography, understood as domains mapped on the land surface of the earth, plotted on the three axes of longitude, latitude and altitude.
Weeds, not houses, sprouted on the scraped-earth plots.
And while Jack Paglen's screenplay may lack the elegance of Christopher Nolan's Inception script (gaping plot holes and clunky dialogue litter the landscape), it shares with it a desire to dream large; to foreground Twilight Zone-style existential questions over the mundane exigencies of down-to-earth plotting, with occasionally risible but more often laudable results.
They were followed in the 1980s by radar-imaging satellites, which can see though clouds and operate in darkness, bouncing radar signals off the earth to plot terrain and paint images of objects on the ground.
What struck me most was the belt of development that extended along the road: the cell-phone towers that jutted from the earth, the plotted real-estate projects that cut like a gash through the green, and the shopping centers and marriage halls that stood above the tree line, testament to the region's new confidence and ambition.
What Williams and his partners did was Google Earth the entire plot and realise that a grimy confluence of buses and junkies was in fact the point where the three cultures of Bloomsbury, Soho and Covent Garden collide.
The satellite images were downloaded from Google Earth with geographical plotting within 50 meters of the site of event.
No wonder this blessed plot, this earth, this Ambridge, is so attractive to outsiders.
