Adventuring with Herbert Putkey

I’ve played around with the Google Maps some more. I’ve created a page that brings up a map of the world. As the page loads it reads in an xml file to get the locations of places we’ve been, and links to this website with the entries related to those places. The page creates markers at each of those locations. Putting the mouse over a marker shows the name of the place. Clicking on the marker brings up a info window with the link to the entries. This link either runs a search on the site for the place, or goes to the appropriate category, if one exists.
I also created a page to add new locations: based on the name it looks up the lat/long of the place and saves the information to the xml.

Try out the map here.

I’ve been playing around a bit with the Google Maps API. My first experiment has been to map out our trip to Italy. I’ve put markers at the cities we went to, and drawn the lines showing the route. I’ve also put in a button (”Tour Italy”) which pans around the map showing our trip. (click here to see the main Italy web page)
If you click on any of the markers, a window will pop up with a link to the pictures for that city. The map also has all the usual features: zooming, switching between the map and satellite image, and panning around. The map can be found here.

I’ve added the links on the right side bar for the pictures…partly. The main picture link pages (geographical and chronological) should load correctly. For the geographical one, i’ve only updated ‘North America‘.

The goal is to integrate the picture site that i’ve already created with this blog. The blog will be the home page. Each time i add pictures to the site, I’ll post an update. The update could range from a plain link to the pictures, to something like a photojournal of a trip - lots of text and some pictures of the highlights, as well as a link to the picture pages.

I plan to update the sidebar: I’ll create the static pages that are similar to what is currently on the picture site: pages for the different regions of the world.

This may take a while to get organized! Fortunately I’m the only one that looks at this site, so there won’t be too many complaints.