Videos and Maps

Spurred on by the great webpage http://www.google.ru/intl/ru/landing/transsib/en.html showing a video taken aboard the Moscow-Vladivostok train on the Trans-Siberian Railway synchronised with a Google Map which shows the progress of the train, I looked at the code behind this superb webpage. I quickly realised that hacking the code to produce a WSR version would take a long time indeed, so put this idea on hold. Then I stumbled across the quite amazing VidMap website http://www.vidmap.de/ which enables users to build their own video-map application using YouTube videos and Google Maps which can be embedded into websites, blogs and so on. Thanks to VidMap, and to a YouTube uploader, and Google, there are now two WSR "vidmaps" online showing cab views of journeys from Minehead to Blue Anchor at http://www.wsr.org.uk/vidmap01.htm and from Blue Anchor to Watchet at http://www.wsr.org.uk/vidmap02.htm