Two days ago something WONDERFUL happened:
These old horrible dark, depressing winter air photos of Trondheim got replaced by new high resolution summer-time ones 
Before:
After:
Why do I care you might ask?
Because I love maps, and I spend an unhealthy amount of time at Google maps =)
Google also finally got street view coverage to Tiller (the souther part of Trondheim where I live). I can even see my motorcycle parked outside:
I declare this day, “I love Google day”.
Why? Because Google has such a vast array of awesome tools which I use every day. Their user interfaces are always powerful, elegant and simple, and because of their dedication to open standards and open source in general.
Stuff I use every day:
Stuff I use often (weekly):
Stuff I sometimes use:
+ lots of other stuff I never use
I was checking out Sven’s page, and found his awesome map of trails (“greenlanes”) in his neighborhood.
I have my own map, but this is on my google maps, so not really very user friendly or manageable, so today I decided to try and use the google maps API.
I’m pretty pleased with the result, a single .html file with almost only javascript. Now I can just export the paths and add a single line in the .html file and the new track will be added to the maps and menu. I’m going to add sorting of the tracks by difficulty, length and maybe based on their distance from Trondhiem sometimes later.
The page is very easy to use, and if you want to make a list of tracks (or any form of lines), just check out the page source code which has 3 simple instructions on how to get it working
I probably won’t be adding many tracks until around the start of May.
