I found some time in the airplane to work on my perl scripts, and got rid of the mess of generated Google Maps javascript in favor of geocoding my photographic RSS feeds.

That means you can paste them into Google Maps like this for place names or this for the most recent 50. Google Maps can't really handle that many, but it's close enough.

On the actual map page, I've done something I've wanted to do for a while and added trip lines roughly indicating the order I visited various photographically worthy places in the past few years. There are toggle buttons at the bottom to play with.

The confusingly-named GeoRSS for Atom feeds, unlike KML and others, doesn't allow styling of the lines or colors, so it's all fairly ugly and blue.

I guess the next steps would be a little animated plane choreographed with a slideshow, better thumbnail previews, and integration with my blog RSS feed so that a location can be guessed for each post.

Today's photographic nomination is in Portraits:

And I'll break from my usual lack of photographic comment to say that the runner up was this similar shot: , or put another way- I chose between Fire and Dice.

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