Jim Rettig’s Travel Schedule for 2008/2009

My director, Jim Rettig, is currently the President-elect of the American Library Association. I had the idea of creating a mashup of his travel itinerary for the year to help the library community visualize where he’ll be appearing over the course of the next year. The result is below.


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Here’s a link to the full version on Google Maps: http://snurl.com/29z6i

To accomplish this, I created a dedicated calendar in Google Calendar, fed the xml data from the calendar into a custom Yahoo! Pipe, and then exported the KML data back to Google Maps.

Props to the team at Lifehacker for picking up on a post of how to do this!

May 21, 2008 | Filed Under Internet, Libraries, Tech Tools 

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One Response to “Jim Rettig’s Travel Schedule for 2008/2009”

  1. Anna on May 21st, 2008 3:34 pm

    Do you plant use Blurb to create a children’s book entitled Where’s Jim Rettig? :wink:

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