Griffin Island

October 7th, 2023
kids
The park near our house has an interesting sign:

A parent put it up, labeling the area you're able to explore from this point without crossing any streets. It's the large red area on my child walksheds map.

The name has caught on well, and it's very useful to be able to refer to this block!

Yesterday I added it to OpenStreetMap and Google Maps and I now see it in both.

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