Balaji’s Blog

Travel pinmap

One of the “joys” of working as an IT consultant is that you get travel.. a lot. I saw this article in Lifehacker today, and I found myself interested in wanting to create a map that would show all the places I’ve been to.

So I first tried out Community Maps, but it somehow didn’t seem to be what I was looking for.

Then I saw in the comments on the original lifehacker article a mention of mypinmaps and it seems to be just what I was looking for.

The site is in horribly pre-alpha state (just look at the hompage!) and there isn’t much by way of web2.0 features like chicklets or feeds. But it does support adding multiple trips to a particular city (which Community Maps doesn’t have) and it’s just enough to meet my needs.

I have plugged in most of my travel (the dates on some of the older trips are a little dodgy) and with some highly abhorrent IFRAME coding, I have got my pinmap into the blog.

PS:mypinmap died a long time ago. After a while, I switched to Dopplr and although it’s missing some features I want, it’s a pretty good site overall. They recently launched a pinmap-style widget which you can see on my dopplr profile.

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