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Bike to Work 2016

Martin Kelley — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 01:25:15 +0000

May 20th was Bike To Work week, which I rode for the third time in recent years. This year I rode 32.1 miles, from 5:53 to 9:00 a.m., for a total time of 3:07 hours and speed of 10.3mph.

I had a phone with Google Maps directions strapped to my handlebar but didn’t need it much as I’ve learned most of the route by now. Every time it feels less outlandish to do this ride, to the point where I might just spontaneously do it again this summer if I find myself awake early. This year I got an early start, never stopped for snacks, and only occasionally stopped for pictures, which together brought me in far earlier than I’ve managed before.

The route (minus the blocks right around my house for privacy):

FWCC Google Maps Mashup

Martin Kelley — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 04:57:24 +0000

The Friends World Committee for Consultation unites Quakers of all stripes together in joint projects and dialog. It’s Americas office has the most complete listing of U.S. and Canadian Friends Meetings and Churches and now has a map to prove it!
This is a mash-up of the FWCC database with Google Maps.

Because of limitations of how many data points Google can show the countries have been divided into regions. The main access page is a screen shot of a Google Map with a old fashioned imagemap overlay that allows you to select the region you want to look at. Javascript goodness shadows the currently selected region.

See it live: www.fwccamericas.org/friends

Alliance Cemetery

Martin Kelley — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:46:12 +0000

I was hired to redesign the website of a cemetery that represents a fascinating slice of South Jersey history. In the 1880s, a group of Jews escaped Russian pogroms, came to America and started a “return to the soil” movement that led to the establishment of an agricultural colony in the small Salem County crossroads of Norma, New Jersey. Before long they established Alliance Cemetery.

The new Alliance website highlights the entrance gate. The cemetery has hired a surveying company to do a detailed map of the plots and we hope to add this in with a Google Maps mash-up when the data becomes available. A detailed history and photos are also in the works.

The design is hand-coded from scratch and is probably the most tasteful design of my portfolio. The pages themselves are editable by the client using CushyCMS and the Directions page has an integrated Google Map.

Visit: AllianceCemetery.com

Quaker Map Hack

Martin Kelley — Thu, 26 May 2005 16:49:38 +0000

To the best of my knowledge this is the first Quaker Google Maps hack, showing the meetinghouses of downtown Philadelphia. Click on the thumbtacks for details; click on the satellite view for a cool view! Like much of the web it looks much better in “Firefox”:http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/. Hack courtesy of the extremely experimental “MyGmaps”:http://mygmaps.com, data from “Quakerfinder.org”:www.Quakerfinder.org. Here’s my short list of “Google Map Hacks”:http://del.icio.us/martin_kelley/map.
Although I love Quakerfinder, it should be noted that Google does almost as good a job listing area “Friends Meetings” via their “local search” feature.