Round the world
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After creating a basic map for our round-the-world itinerary and then adding photos when placemarkers are clicked, today we're going to add some handy labels to the map to show rough dates for when we'll be arriving in a particular location. This actually proved trickier than expected: there's an old library called MapLabel that works […]
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In the last post we looked at a basic implementation of a round-the-world itinerary in Google Maps. In today's post we're going to add the ability to see the first photo associated with a location when you click on it. The Google Maps API makes it fairly easy to get the photos associated with a […]
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Over the next few posts I'm going to talk about the process I went through to integrate the itinerary for our imminent round-the-world trip into the awesome web-site my wife has set up. The initial approach I took was to use Google My Maps: this is a really cool tool for creating a custom map […]
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It's now less than a week before my family and I get on a plane and start our big trip: visiting 13 countries on 5 continents (not including the one we're starting from) over the course of 6 months. We leave on July 2nd, 2017, and – if our plans don't change – will return […]
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Most of my team has been 100% focused on an event taking place in Toronto, this week, the Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (or SimAUD). This is a really interesting conference for people working in our space: I'm looking forward to attending myself, at some point. As the only non-Toronto based member […]
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We've crossed a pretty big milestone in the plans for my family's round the world trip for the latter half of 2017: we've actually booked flights. Here's how the latest location tracker looks: You can compare this with the more speculative plan from last time – which still holds good for most areas – to […]