It´s 10:38 pm now and instead of reading or watching TV as normal people do I still concern myself with how to create a google map. I do so, because I don´t have the feeling that I have been really “productive” today (maybe I spent too much time blogging?). I always have a feeling like this, when I was not able to complete all the tasks that I planned to do for the day. OK, I guess I often plan to complete too many tasks, but anyway.

After managing to extract the coordinates from my register_places.xml into a kml file I tried to create a google map as I had done for the repositories before. Sometimes I´m quite successful doing things that I´ve never tried before. I remember that it actually worked fine for the repositories. But when I used the same method for the places of origin, google told me at first that this was not a valid file. Ok, google was right: the declaration wasn´t correct – fixed.

Now I have a map, but I´m quite sure that Europe has not moved to Africa in the last few minutes…

wrong structure of coordinates

I remember that I had the same problem with the repositories once as well. I only have to recall how I fixed it. At least I have a “correct” kml file now, so working with google maps is not as disappointing as has been trying to create a timeline for all the 273 manuscript witnesses. I spent the whole sunday working myself through all the timeline tools, jquery libraries etc. out there. Although I have a variety of xml and json files with my data now that accord to the different specifications, I couldn´t create a single timeline. That´s crap!

My day of DH finishes now!