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\subsection{Contributions} This paper was a truly a group effort, and the author list includes only some of the many people who have contributed to it. The entire project was inspired by a question: ``Is Nessie parallel to the Galactic Plane?," asked by Andi Burkert at the 2012 Early Phases of Star Formation (EPoS) meeting at the Max Planck Society's Ringberg Castle in Bavaria. Three EPoS attendees beyond the author list contributed significant ideas and data to this work, most notably Steven Longmore, Eli Bressert, and Henrik Beuther. We are grateful to Cormac Purcell for giving us advance online access to the HOPS data, and to Mark Reid for generously sharing his expertise on Galactic structure. The text here was largely written by Alyssa Goodman; the theoretical ideas come primarily from Andi Burkert; and much of the geometrical analysis was carried out by Christopher Beaumont, Bob Benjamin, and Tom Robitaille. Tom Dame and Bob Benjamin provided expertise on Galactic structure, and they created several of the figures shown here. Jens Kauffmann provided expertise on IRDCs, and also was first to point out the potential relevance of the Sun's non-zero height above the Galactic Plane. Joao Alves provided expertise on the potential for using extinction maps to find more Nessie-like features, and Michelle Borkin was instrumental in early visualization work that led to our present proposals for using the Sun's ``high" vantage point to map out the Milky Way. Jim Jackson contributed critical expertise on the Nessie IRDC, based both on the 2010 study he led and on unpublished work since. This paper is derived from the first manuscript prepared in a new online collaborative authoring system called Authorea. The early drafts of the paper, as well as the final version, were, and are, all open to the public. We thank Authorea's founders and developers, Alberto Pepe, Nathan Jenkins, and Eli Bressert, for assistance as the work proceeded.  xxacknowledge NSF and NASAxx xxAdd here or in appropriate funding blurb spot: ``M. Borkin was supported by the Department of Defense through the National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG) Program.'' xx \subsection {Facilities} (xxcheck current ApJ format, namesxx) MOPRA, CfA Mini, Spitzer Space Telescope.