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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 [...]

More JR Station Maps (Japanese)

I wrote a post before about some JR train station maps that are on their site. The list included only maps that had English translations, but recently I found a much longer list (with 170 stations). It’s only in Japanese but you can work out the general layout by looking.

I ran the HTML page [...]