In 2000 and 2001, Michelle and I took a trip around the world. Being a total geek, I took my handheld GPS and took coordinates at every place we slept. I thought, "I'll overlay the coordinates on a map when we return. It will be the coolest map in the world..." But back then creating a digital map was a little too time consuming.

But today I was reading through Chad Dickerson's Berkeley-area doctors map mashup and I said to myself "Charlie, you have the data. Make the map." And I did...

First, I took a look at the Yahoo! Maps API but so far on the USA is supported. Then I checked the Google Maps API and bingo. I was up and running in about 30 minutes. The only problem I had was with IE aborting the page. But executing the map's JavaScript at window.onload solved the issue. View the source to see the solution.

The small version of the map is below or the full page version is here.

Zoom in on Nepal. That's the Annapurna basecamp trek we took.