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Panoramio Photos

I’ve been using Panoramio photos a lot in my Japan Trains pages, where each station will display the nearest pictures pulled from Panoramio. The Panoramio API is a little bit difficult to deal with, since it only offers one way to access photos: by describing a rectangle of latitude and longitude coordinates, and fetching the [...]


JR Train Station Maps

Japan Rail has a great page with maps of many major stations. I didn’t like the way they pop out a new page for every one, so I wrote a quick parser to grab all the links. Here’s the pages for individual station maps. Most are in Tokyo, but a few are further away (eg [...]