the citizen-viewer

This is nifty. You can make your last 20 geotagged flickr photos show up on a Google map.

Just copy the feed link at the bottom of the flickr page, add “&georss=true” to the end, paste it into the search box and bob’s your uncle.

Here’s an example of the results. Unless you’re using Explorer, as far as I can tell.

More details at the geobloggers.

Clark Park, Philadelphia 2206. Click it for larger version and more info.

they’re here.

The first batch of photos is up, here. Most of them are from the Haret Hreik neighborhood in southern Beirut, the part hardest hit.

More varied photos are on the way. In fact, you can see by these before-and-after satellite photos that this destruction, as enormous as it is, is not typical. Almost all of Beirut is still standing, even if we only see photos of destruction in the news.

Trevorton, Pennsylvania

As long as it’s both, I guess it’s OK.
South Philadelphia.

Back East we have gas stations named Citgo, Exxon, BP and the like. I had never noticed before that in the Midwest there are all these nationalistic gas station names.

This SuperAmerica is on Lake Ave in Minneapolis. (Third in a series.)

At least we know which side this gas station is on.

Just north of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. (Second in a series.)

Inside they were selling these Little Debbie Spirit of America Stars & Stripes Snack Cakes. Deliciously desecrating!

Just east of Peoria, Illinois. (First in a series.)

A lovely Sunday afternoon in Philadelphia, brightened by the sound of gay gospel -- a genre of which I was previously unaware -- and the arrival of the annual pride parade. And no sign of the American Taliban.

Can I now say one of my photos has appeared in The New York Times?

It's part of the slide show accompanying this story by Matt Gross.

Photos from Amy and Jamie's wedding are now up on my flickr page. A good time was had by all.

Two PCC trolley cars from Boston's Green Line sit at the Beard Street Pier in Red Hook. These streetcars are left over from a long-running restoration project by Bob Diamond to bring trolley service back to Brooklyn. That project foundered for lack of funds.

In 2003, the NYC Department of Transportation ordered Diamond to remove the trolley tracks he had reconstructed on public streets, leaving the trolleys orphaned on a short stretch of track behind a locked gate. The project has now been adopted by the Brooklyn City Streetcar Company.

If the MTA thought it could afford to kiss off a few hundred million dollars in straphanger money to help the Jets build a stadium, perhaps it could consider sinking a fraction of that into helping citizens bring public transit back to Red Hook. Are you listening, Mayor Bloomberg? I didn't think so.