Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your web browser. Each weekday your guides James and Alex present new weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.
Some of you more perceptive readers may have noticed that I’m seriously lacking on the post count front. I think James has managed 105, whilst I’m on a measly 35. My reason (excuse) for this is that I’m working on using the latest bleeding-edge web technologies to improve your sightseeing experience. To this end, the map now works flawlessly in Internet Explorer, updates even faster, has much more informative title text and has a google style ‘link to this page’ link.
This form will auto-link URLs or you can use simple HTML, <a href="http://googlesightseeing.com">Like this</a>.
Link to specific places either as a Google Maps page or a decimal latitude and longitude written like this: lat/lng:55.949400,-3.200000.
If you've found an unrelated sight that you think should be posted in its own entry then use the suggestion form!
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Woo! Go Olly, nice work
Thank you
Even though absolutely nothing looks different other than the Link to the Page link… great job!
Very cool, but it’s subject to a Safari bug I’m afraid
I presume you’re using XMLHttpRequest to change the categories?
If so then Safari breaks down when selecting a category that has previously been selected - the URI you specified in the XMLHttpRequest has been visited before as far as Safari is concerned so therefore should be in the cache… trouble is, ‘cos of the bug, it’s not, so you can’t select a category more than once… you get a “Error, could not get map data” message instead without the XMLHttpRequest even being sent. (Boo Safari!)
To fix it, make the URI unique each time by adding some ignored value to the end of it, such as the current date/time for example.
I’ve not looked at the source code but if the URI was “./?category=alabama” then change it to “./?category=alabama&unique=1234″ where the unique value changes every time.
Phew! Sorry for the big geek post
This site rocks - there’s been nothing like it for years, so just wanted to help!
Brilliant, thanks Ian. James and I use Safari, so we know your frustration!
Great work!
Only sugestion is to seperate the “by state” group and the “other” group. Very impressive!
too cool! thanks!
Is there an “All” option hiding somewhere?
Looks that some maps are updated..try new york, chicago or area51 for example…better zoom and resolution!
Amazing…found my house in Amsterdam. Have still to explore possibilities of this site. Thank’s a lot for all your work …. xxxkwk