Archive by tag 'Sometimes I want to be somewhere I’m not. Today, it was Yosemite. Fortunately, there’s a high-tech solution: virtual touring. Here are a few of my favorite resources. There are many more resources you can use for virtual traveling. Google image search MapQuest Bing Yahoo Wikipedia YouTube Do you use the Internet to “travel”? What are [...]
Posts Tagged ‘google maps’
Embedded Google Maps Slowness
My main page had really slowed down: 56.58 seconds to load completely! The culprit appeared to be the four embedded Google maps. Let’s see how the loading time broke down (all times according to Firebug): Category Entire Page Google Maps Portion HTML 20.5 s 5.925 s CSS 5.04 s 0 s JS 26.55 s 22.656 [...]
Google Maps Plugin Works for K2 Theme in Internet Explorer and Firefox
Update: If you don’t see maps, it’s likely that I disabled the Google Maps Plugin. Google now offers much the same functionality without the slowdown on every page load, regardless whether there’s a map on the page. Also, the funny stuff needed for CSS files is now built into the latest versions of K2. Finally, [...]
Links for May 10, 2007
Google LatLong Blog — Google’s new blog for Google Earth and Maps. Its second post shows Greensburg, Kansas, Tornado Imagery.
Links for May 9, 2007
One link for today. Are You Statisfied? — Show you latest visitor on a Google map in real time. Here’s the blogan map. I imagine this would be even more exciting for those who get more hits. ;-)
Google Maps Plugin Works with WordPress K2 Theme
Please see my later post on this topic. Thanks to the help on the kaytwo Google Code forum, the Googlemaps plugin now works with the K2 theme on blogan.net. Update: Argh! It appears to work only with Firefox. Time for debugging… Update 2: Okay, I lied. I didn’t delete the offending line, I had changed [...]
West Nickel Mines Amish School
Yesterday, 32-year-old Charles Carl Roberts IV killed five schoolgirls and then himself at the West Nickel Mines Amish School. Apparently, Roberts carried a grudge for twenty years. In other words, over something that happened when he was 12! In the meantime, Roberts had “grown up,” married, and become the father of three. It seems strangely [...]
Montreal bridge collapse
A bridge collapsed in Laval, near Montreal, Quebec, killing five people. View the bridge before the collapse in Google Maps. (Source)
Google moon
Google celebrates the 36th anniversary of the first lunar landing with Google Moon. Zoom in for a surprisingly detailed, color view of the landing sites. Hat tip: The Office Weblog.
