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A roundup of maps of venues and facilities for the 2024 Paris Olympics<\/a> from competitive swimming website Swim Swam<\/em>; the maps are small and mostly sourced from social media. The map on the Paris 2024 website<\/a> is interactive, comprehensive and confusing: a case of doing everything but nothing well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A roundup of maps of venues and facilities for the 2024 Paris Olympics from competitive swimming website Swim Swam; the maps are small and mostly sourced from social media. The map on the Paris 2024… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[342],"tags":[153,602,172],"class_list":["post-1832267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-sport-recreation","tag-france","tag-olympics","tag-paris","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1815674,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/06\/pierre-novat-french-painter-of-ski-resort-panoramas\/","url_meta":{"origin":1832267,"position":0},"title":"Pierre Novat, French Painter of Ski Resort Panoramas","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"15 June 2023","format":"link","excerpt":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/115794271 Pierre Novat (1928-2007) was another painter of panoramic mountain and ski resort maps working with the same techniques as Henrich Berann and James Niehues. 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