Added a zoom-control to the 'Virtual Tour' map, this because there are so many business sites concentrated together that it's hard to view them separately unless you zoom way in. In that process, discovered a bug that makes text yellow on the pop-ups if there are multiple paragraphs in the descriptions; still working on it.
The other day i discovered something i've been hearing about: Google's 'Street-Level View'. Incredible! Check this for Weaverville... Using your arrow keys, you can actually 'fly' down the street, looking freely left, right, behind, and it's not just the main highways but many Trinity side streets as well. (I described this free techno-miracle to some local folks; they were merely bored, and criticized that Google addresses are often wrong. I don't think people appreciate how incredibly difficult actually DOing anything is.) My plan is to add this feature to a mapping of the 'Towns of Trinity' (a 'town', i've decided, being any place with a Post Office, ie: Weaverville, Douglas City, Lewiston, Trinity Center, Junction City, Big Bar, Burnt Ranch, Salyer, Hayfork, Wildwood (which is accepted by USPS, even tho technically the place is considered Platina, of Shasta County), Hyampom, Mad River, Ruth, and finally Zenia (even tho Zenia is now ONLY a post office, plus the vacant old store)).
Also discovered Panoramio.com, which allows folks to upload/download photos by latitude/longitude, so my plan is to add links from the Towns of Trinity to Panoramio. For example: photos of Weaverville. (Its only fault is that those folks uploading aren't always very exact in specifying the photo location. Hence at Big Bar, we see folks driving thru a hollow giant redwood.)
Talked to Geoffrey Beebe again re his plan for a 'Virtual Tour' of Weaverville which includes entering each store and looking around. He wants me to do it. Well, i can, as long as it's a series of separate photos, but he's imagining it as the Google Street Level View taken INSIDE, and i don't know how to do THAT.
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