Completely silly, perfectly useless and really immature

[wataya]

But I'm outrageously happy of this little victory over nothing : I managed to have some of my pictures taken in Japan published in Google Maps !
Being published in Google Earth is super easy, the easiest way being to use Paronamio, which I did. Every picture that follows the rules is published in Google Earth. Which makes billions of pictures. That's not super interesting.
For Google Maps, they make a selection, and as most monuments are already covered by a bazillions of pictures of every tourist-wanabe-reporter, it's kind of complicated to get selected now. So I chose 4 rather unknown sites in Tokyo, and the formidable thing is that they uses most of my pictures !!! (Ok, I'm sure they are operating a turn-over of pictures, so that everyone has a chance one day, but still : obscure sites, few tourists, few pictures ! I may be the only tourist there in months. I definitely was the only occidental one in the district at the time I went. So my picture may be the nearly only reference. Yes, I told you, I'm being wonderfully immature !)

It's here :
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid=204001439704513791484.0004a0fad88d57b13cd1b

Comments

[katexxxxxx.livejournal.com]

Massages the ego nicely, doesn't it! ;) Well done.

Hope the trip is worth it. Good to see you went anyway, despite recent upheavals seeming to put lots of folk off. I really think we need to be telling Japan we care by going and spending our tourist £/$ when we can.

[wataya]

Actually this is from my last year trip, but my next trip, that will happen in July will definititely happen ! Im going no matter what ( Except if my mother tie me to a chair to avoid it, which, seeing how emotionnaly she is about that trip, might very well happen !) Tourist economy in Japan may not be that important, but every piece of money we can bring to keep their economy from sinking is good. So yeah, it IS worth it.

I'm reviewing my last year picture to remind me how much I want to go, and how my fears are irrational.

[green-martha.livejournal.com]

Yay ! *happy dance*