I took a year off to go travelling, and I wanted a way to combine my two passions of photography and maps in a new blog. I couldn't find a decent option so I wrote a new travel blog using Ruby On Rails, which featured a map as an integral component.
Each blog post is geo-referenced, meaning that a map showing each post's location can be easily shown on each page. More importantly, blog posts can be searched spatially, leading to a richer reading experience than searching through hierarchical lists to find an article.
This presentation will briefly explain the workings of the new blog engine, an instructions for how to get started using it.
It will also feature some nice travel imagery from my year on the road!