Following up on my whining last month about not being able to find a suitable and easy Web 2.0 widget to record the countries I have visited, I’ve stumbled upon one the other day that comes reasonably close!
Douwe Osinga, who works at Google, made an interactive applet for selecting the countries visited (for the USA and India also the states), and the generated code can then be copied into your home page, blog, and facebook. Updating the generated figure can be done by pasting the previously generated html back into the appropriate box, clicking on the new country/ies, and then pasting that code back into your home page, blog, or facebook. And no login hurdles etc have to be overcome.
Thus, it is not entirely interactive and cross-linked and all that, but it will do fine—and most certainly better than the lame Paint-job I did last month. So, here goes the updated picture (not including the holiday that I would like to take now), where at the bottom you will find the standard link to create your own map: (map updated on 30-6-’12)
visited 36 states (16%)
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Posted by TheBlackTwig on December 13, 2010 at 5:16 PM
this is helpful. i was also looking for one recently. thank you!
Posted by emmafcamp on December 13, 2012 at 2:47 PM
Hi there, can you tell me how you get the map into your blog. Thanks
Posted by keet on December 14, 2012 at 10:26 AM
scroll down on osinga’s page (http://douweosinga.com/projects/visited), where there is a box with “..pasting the following html code:”. On your blog, when editing a post, go from the ‘fancy’ wysiwyg interface to the html view, copy the code from osinga’s page and paste it on your in the html view.
Posted by Leo on January 21, 2013 at 5:31 PM
This is a good site to keep track of the countries that you visited and also the Unesco heritage sites visited http://countriesivisited.com