Mick (SplaTT) Stanic has been posting pics of crateman, a figure made from milk crates perched on a wall near East Richmond station (Victoria, Australia). An Aussie colleague (coincidentally named Cameron) was at first amused, then said “hang on, I used to live just up the road from there!”

Sure enough looking at the Melways map his house was only 3–4 roads away, and Cam's brother still lives there, so watch out for even more pics.

One thing this brings home is just how badly Australia needs decent online mapping, the ninemsn map Mick linked to is classic fugly Web 0.9 fare, and the Melway based one I used isn’t much better and features a very broken search engine. Where’s the Aussie version of Projectx and Zoomin?