{"id":1346,"date":"2009-11-01T21:53:43","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T12:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2009-11-01\/1346"},"modified":"2009-11-01T21:53:43","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T12:53:43","slug":"interactive-map-of-my-blog-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2009-11-01\/1346","title":{"rendered":"Interactive Map of My Blog Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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I think my computer senses that I'm about to\nditch it<\/a> because we came back from a short<\/span> trip and I loaded<\/span> new\nphotos, but the graphics-card hardware acceleration doesn't seem to work\nanymore, turning my use of Lightroom from a zippy<\/span>-responsive experience to\na painful,<\/span> laggy frustration.<\/p>\n\n

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So, no new photos for a while... I ended<\/span> up ordering a Mac<\/span> Pro, and\ncurrently have 8TB of disk sitting in a box<\/span> by my desk waiting for the Mac\nto arrive.<\/p>\n\n

So, today I'll post about a new addition to my blog that I quietly<\/span> added\na week<\/span> ago, highlighted with the red arrow in the screenshot at right, of\nmy blog's home page: an interactive Google Map overlaid with photos from my\nblog<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

The default location is Kyoto where I live,<\/span> but like any Google map, you\ncan visit anywhere in the world, and if I've posted geoencoded photos on my\nblog from that part of the world, they'll start to show up. When you're\nzoomed way out to the country or state or city level, you'll see only a few<\/span>\nif there are any at all, but as you zoom in, more will pop up.<\/p>\n\n

Most of the 4,000+ geoencoded photos are in Japan, but at the moment there are also some\nin\nMalaysia,\nCalifornia<\/a>,\nOregon<\/a>,\nBritish Columbia<\/a>,\nand\nOhio<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Clicking on a thumbnail brings up a larger<\/span> version, the date it was\ntaken, and info about the blog post it was from. Double-clicking zooms you\nup to the immediate area.<\/p>\n\n

Sometimes you have to zoom all the way in to see multiple pictures\nbecause they're taken in the same immediate vicinity, and sometimes you\nhave to switch to the satellite view to zoom in even further. Often I'll\nhave multiple photos taken from the exact same spot, but only one can be\nshown. Clicking on it shows a link<\/span> under the larger version that pops up,\nalong the lines of “there are 20 other photos within 100m of this one”;\nclicking on it jumps over to my blog's photo proximity\nsearch<\/a> showing all photos in the immediate area.<\/p>\n\n

I figure that this will of most interest to the same set of users that\nfind my blog most interesting, which is to say, me. But perhaps<\/span> the photo\nmap might be useful for someone planning a visit<\/span> to Kyoto, or wanting to do\nsome virtual sightseeing.<\/p>\n\n

Other ways to browse all my blog-posted photos – not just\ngeoencoded ones – include the Prettiest Blog\nPhotos<\/a> link (highlighted by the green arrow in the screenshot), which\nbrings up a page<\/span> of themes (Japan, Autumn, etc.), each of which brings up a\nscreen<\/span> full of hopefully-pretty pictures to browse.<\/p>\n\n

For more of a firehose effect, check out the yearly index of photos\n(highlighted by the blue arrow in the screenshot). At this point<\/span> the page\nfor 2009 has a grid<\/span> of 1,605 thumbnails, a portion<\/span> from September which\nlooks like this:<\/p>\n\n

\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n

It'll probably take a while to load the first time. \ud83d\ude42    Clicking on a\nthumbnail<\/span> brings you to the associated post.<\/p>\n\n

I build this stuff mostly for myself, but I've put up links in case\nanyone else might find it interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think my computer senses that I'm about to ditch it because we came back from a short trip and I loaded new photos, but the graphics-card hardware acceleration doesn't seem to work anymore, turning my use of Lightroom from a zippy-responsive experience to a painful, laggy frustration.<\/p>

So, no new photos for a while... I ended up ordering a Mac Pro, and currently have 8TB of disk sitting in a box by my desk waiting for the Mac to arrive.<\/p>

So, today I'll post about a new addition to my blog that I quietly added a week ago, highlighted [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}