Shwap that Shmap
From the somewhat cool and gently gratifying department: I’m in the Shmap.
What is the Shmap, you ask?
Exploring a Schmap Guide is a uniquely interactive experience: maps and guide content are dynamically integrated, allowing intuitive, real-time access to reviews and photo slideshows for places of interest.
They’re available for iPhone and iPod touch, and they use photos that amateurs like myself have taken. Here are the two places my photos are being used:
Nashville redux
As you’ve undoubtedly noticed if you’ve been reading my blog lately, I’ve been in Nashville attending the NAESP conference. Great city, great conference, and this is a great opportunity to check out the new Wordpress gallery feature.
Some of my Nashville photos, after the link … click on any to see larger versions (and again to get a full-size version.) Oddly, the multi-file upload feature promised in Wordpress 2.5 did not work.
Antiques
I love this pic from my recent trip to New Orleans:
Flickr is down
It’s been ages since the latest outage, but yes, Flickr is down right now.
Naturally it’s right after I come back from a nature walk by the Fraser River. I’ve never, ever seen it so calm as I saw it today … hardly a ripple anywhere. The biggest disturbance on the surface of the water was caused by a solitary seagull.
Unbelievable. I’ve never seen a river so calm - as calm as a mountain lake sheltered by surrounding peaks on a calm day.
[ update: Flickr's back up, and here's one of the photos ]
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Orange apple
I’ve sort of made a New Year’s resolution. Silly of me, I know.
But it’s not a real New Year’s resolution. It’s not like I solemnly stated it or something at the stroke of midnight on December 31st. It’s just something I think I want to do.
I’d like to take at least one picture, every day of 2008, that I’m happy enough with to upload to my account at Flickr. (Which automatically updates, by the way, via the magic of widgets, my photos blog page.)
I’ve already missed a day … but only one day. And I think I’m going to keep trying.
Here’s today’s effort … a detail of a painting by my brother-in-law, Jeroen Vermeulen.
Photo used in Schmap Vancouver
Just got this email letting me know this photo of mine with a CC license is being used in a map/guide to Vancouver. Cool!
Hi John,I am delighted to let you know that one of your photos witha Creative Commons license has been selected for inclusionin the newly released third edition of our Schmap VancouverGuide:Science WorldIf you like the guide and have a website, blog or personalpage, then please also check out our schmapplets -customizable widgetized versions of our Schmap VancouverGuide, complete with your published photo:http://www.schmap.com/schmapplets/p=18955080N00/c=SE28031505Please enjoy the guide!Best regards,Luke Ritchie,Managing Editor, Schmap Guides
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