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• Playing with mapping
  by Dave Pearson

  Pretty much ever since I started an online gallery on my main website I’ve be…

  Pretty much ever since I started an online gallery on my main website I’ve being geotagging my photographs at the album level. This has meant that, as well as being able to provide locations per album, I’ve been able to provide views of my photographs via a Google Earth feed, Google Maps and Virtual Earth. Recently I’ve also been working on some ruby code that makes it easier for my to write querying scripts for the photography on my main site. This evening I realised that I could pull the two threads together and easily produce a map of my works on RedBubble where the work is on my main site and is geotagged. This is still in the early stages of testing but here’s a few examples of what I can done (fingers crossed they work for you): A map of my RedBubble works on my RedBubble wrapper site. My RedBubble works on Google Maps. My RedBubble works on Virtual Earth. My RedBubble works viewed inside Google Earth.

• Putting my photography in its place
  by Dave Pearson

  Now that I’ve got my ruby code that lets me query the photography on my main site in a nice and simple way...

  Now that I’ve got my ruby code that lets me query the photography on my main site in a nice and simple way running smoothly I’ve been toying with some more things that I can do with it. After doing the geoname hack the other day I realised that I now had everything I needed to generate a list of all of my albums broken down by the nearest centre of population. One very short ruby script later (the heart of which is a single line of code, albeit a rather long line of code) plus a little bit of php hacking (my main site was developed ages ago in php—I’ll probably move to rails one day) and I had what I wanted. So, here we go: all my albums broken down by nearest centre of population. The layout could do with some improvement and I’ll probably get around to that some time soon but, for a quick hack, it works well and is actually quite handy (at least for my own purposes).