bigmacbear | State map

create your own visited states map
or check out these Google Hacks.

Update: I noticed

henare made a copy of his map so it loads faster. If you just use the code they give you, it has to generate a new map every time somebody reads your journal entry, and as this becomes more popular it is going to swamp the poor server at douweosinga.com. So I made copies of my generated map and

gmjambear's, and we linked to them instead.

If you would like to do this yourself, here's how:

Make the copy of the map by right-clicking on the displayed map and selecting "Save Picture As" or "Save Image As" in the pop-up menu. (I'm sure Mac users can do something similar from the menu in their browser, but I don't know the details.)

Upload the picture to your picture server. See this FAQ for requirements for image hosting.

Replace the URL that follows '<img src="' in the code you copied from douweosinga.com with the URL of your copy of the map. Don't change the other two links.

Optional: If you really want the map to load fast (especially in IE), determine the dimensions of the map you made (mine are 550 x 338, and they should all be the same if they're being generated the way I think they are) and add "width" and "height" attributes to the image tag.

Example:
<img src="http://www.bigmacbear.com/LJ/mike-state-map.gif" width="550" height="338">

Also: After looking at

gmjambear's page I counted up the electoral votes of the states I visited and got 428 (you only need 270 to be President). Yippee! (If only it were that easy. ;-)

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