Geeky world map
Thu 13 Apr 2006I thought this was a little bit interesting - a site that allows you to tick off a list of countries you have visited and then generate a map showing those countries.
create your own visited country mapÂ
(Apparently I have visited 22, or 10% of the world’s countries.)
But the geek in me became really interested when I saw the HTML they give you to include this map in your own blog.
img src="http://www.world66.com/myworld66
/visitedCountries/worldmap?
visited=CAUSEGMAATBEFRDEIEITLINLESCHUKVABHJOMYSGTHAUNZ” /
Note that the visited= parameter contains a list of 2-letter country codes. It starts with CAUSEGMA (Canada, USA, Egypt, Morocco) and ends with AUNZ (Australia, New Zealand)
Where might this be useful? Let’s say I had a travel blog, eg Here’s a picture of me at Petra in Jordan last year. And now, the question on everyone’s lips, “Where the bloody hell is Jordan?” Ta-Da:
img src="http://www.world66.com/myworld66
/visitedCountries/worldmap?visited=JO” /
Of course, being true geeks and in the interests of valid XHTML, we would always remember to add the alt= to the img tags. Wouldn’t we?
