In late April, I mentioned I was working on a new version of my blog that would use PostGIS, and later changed my mind to using MySQL GIS Extension. A big part of the blog would be to mix content types together by geographical location – so that pictures, maps, content and stories about a particular piece of land would be grouped together, rather then spread out on increasingly disordered different parts of the blog.

The project never was abandoned but it kind of got put into recess when the summer and camping season got underway. I certainly did not want to s tragedy inside, screwing around code, and doing a lot of testing to implement which is a total re-write of the blog code, connected with a vastly different MySQL database then the existing code.

I have pretty much completed out my vision of what the new blog will look like, and the PHP code I wrote to convert over the data is done. I don’t expect to create any new features for it that are not already envisioned, but at the same time, not all the needed code is written.

Once the snows come and it’s cold out, I will spend more time working on the new blog code, safely tucked away in a seperate folder on my laptop’s webserver, and backed up on the secondary hard drive. While the new blog may be 6-8 months behind schedule, I will happy to get away from the somewhat broken and certainly outdated code that currently props up the existing blog – some of which dates back 2005 or earlier, when things were a lot different/

In the mean time, I am working on more new daily content, and make sure any day I don’t have anything new or interesting to post the blog, that we will at least have re-runs of some of the interesting content of days past. I am also going to look for new and interesting content using GIS data to produce Google Maps and other things of interest.