The Great Outsmores

The other reason I’ve been away from my blog: PostMapper.com As many of you know, I’ve been trying to put together a way for all of our Outdoors Bloggers to tag their posts on a site wide Google map. Well, as usual, I went a little overboard.

Over the last month or so, I put together a utility that all bloggers can use to tag their posts on one searchable google map, hence PostMapper. I’ll leave the techno speak alone, but here is what it does and how my fellow outdoors and travel bloggers can use it:

What it does:

1. Takes the location of a post, and converts it to coordinates (geocoding)
2. Sends the post’s location, title, excerpt, and link to the PostMapper site
3. The PostMapper site then displays this information on a searchable map, allowing visitors to follow the link back to the participating blog to read the full post.

I’ve already written a mapping plugin for wordpress that does all the hard work, and it even includes a neat little tool for displaying a map within a post by simply typing “

” without the quotes. Soon, Ihope to have a tool for TypePad and Blogger users to tag the map also, I’ll post it here when I do.

I’d sure love it if anybody wants to give it a try, and please don’t hesitate to send any criticism my way.

Lastly, OutdoorsBloggers can already access this utility without having to do anything but activate the plugin.

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