Victory at last! I’ve finally figured out how to integrate my GPS coordinates into posts, just in time for this site’s rebirth.

Incidentally, I post detailed explanations and stories about each photo in normal posts.

If you are curious why there is only 1 photo on this photo site at the moment, you are welcome to read about my hosting travails in the previous post. All is being corrected, and the site will be manually restored shortly.

-Dan

Grab anywhere on this map to scroll around the precise spot where the above photo was taken. You may also zoom in and out with the buttons in the left corner.

JapanPhotoJournal.com only had 99 posts before my provider destroyed its database. Though I have lost the valued interactions and comments from others, I can reformat the text from the rtf backup files I saved on my own computer and of course I can re-upload all the photos. Though this process will likely take me a couple of weeks, instead of the few minutes it could have taken if I had a backup of the site’s database, I can rebuild things and all is not lost.

Moving the site and starting from scratch, reassembling everything, gives me the chance to better integrate it with my long delayed podcast which is finally coming together. Those first 99 entries largely correlate to the first few podcast episodes. I can quickly put everything back up in the next couple of weeks, link relevant photos to the podcast, and then get about the business of adding new photos here. I will mix in a few new photos with the first 99, so there is at least some new content during the next couple of weeks as I finish rebuilding everything.

With the site’s reincarnation, I’ll be providing the ability to see exactly where each photo was taken, using the GPS data I collect with a GPS data logger whenever I shoot in Japan.

I’ve also taken this forced relaunch as an opportunity to redesign the site with a custom Wordpress interface (though I’m still not ready to let go of the original Kyoto dragon fountain photo in the header). Hopefully, the site will be an improved experience all the way around in its new incarnation.

Thanks for hanging in there with me.
Dan Savage [Email]