Notions

I have updated the Blogger Title Fix plugin (revision 0.2) to include some configuration options. This release includes the following additions…

• An option to set the number of characters to use for the title. The default is 48, like Blogger, but I find that a shorter title is more appealing.
• An option to set whether the title is cropped at a word boundary, instead of the default character boundary.

http://notions.okuda.ca/wordpress-plugins/blogger-title-fix/

I have finally written a plugin to replace the ugly post titles that sometimes accompany a Blogger-to-WordPress import – the numerical titles that are added to Blogger posts without a title. This plugin replaces those ugly titles with an excerpt from the post body.

http://notions.okuda.ca/wordpress-plugins/blogger-title-fix/

I have upgraded the GPX Viewer mashup script to version 2 of the Google Maps API. There are only some minor changes to the API and some of the objects used. It doesn’t make the script any better, but now it is more likely to be compatible with future versions of the API.

As part of the update, I added an extra parameter to CenterAndZoom to set the type of map so that it can be set as part of the initialization. You should pass in one of G_NORMAL_MAP, G_SATELLITE_MAP, or G_HYBRID_MAP (or another custom map type you may have created).

The order of initialization is now more strict. As part of the update I tried to make the center and zoom more efficient by calculating the bounding box while adding the points to the map. However, the new API requires that the map position and zoom be set before anything else is done, so I have reverted that change. The code is still in there, but it is commented out for now.

Get it here…
http://notions.okuda.ca/geotagging/projects-im-working-on/gpx-viewer/

Well, it looks like I have been beaten to the punch, yet again, TripTracker.net has a nice, easy to use, interface for showing GPS track logs and adding photos to maps. This is on my to-do list of things to do, but someone already did it. I’ll just have to do it better

Iceburn (Tim?) has a cool tutorial about using his Nikon camera to embed the GPS data directly on the camera (with an adapter to connect a GPS). He has also written a Perl script for taking GeoTagged photos and creating an XML file for his Google Maps viewer. Very cool.

http://www.iceburnslair.com/mapper/