OK after some prevaricating, I’ve added the Geopress plugin (by Andrew Turner & Mikel Maron) and updated this blog with the coordinates of all of the previously mapped posts. I now have a georss feed.

This means that anything I locate in this way you can see in google or yahoo maps. Just take a look at my feed in google maps, I have about 30 posts on the map. As far as I know I am the first Architecture blog to enable this, I think it would be great if there were more though.

Previously, I had been using two plugins to save locations and to map them. The results you could see on my map page but the plugins were never fully implemented by me and there was no way to get the coordinates out of the map. Georss is an open standard and broadcasts my geolocation information so it can be picked up by anything looking for it.

This is only the start. I need to add a category and assess how to best show geolocated posts in the blog. Also a kml feed for Google Earth is next up.

My old plugins now superseded were Geo by Owen Winkler and Plug ‘n’ play googlemap by Yoongfook.

There are some new blogs to me on the list too which I will take a look at in the next few days. I would submit a longer list too. Darren has a great blog, its the one I started reading before I came to Helsinki, it was quite reassuring too! Also some really great english language blogs by finns. For example;

Butt ugly/antti.vilpponen/nnyman/ Mika Meskanen, just to name a few off the top of my head. Overall I think the Finnish Blogosphere in all its guises is going pretty strong!

The Magazine for Swedish Architecture is Arkitektur. But they have an excellent weblog which is worth checking out, they name checked me, so thanks guys! Mostly in Swedish, I can get some sort of idea of the content of the site from my desktop translator although it churns out much rubbish, but its worth it because the choice of projects on the blog is really good. It’s quite a refreshing attitude for a mainstream print magazine to experiment with a weblog, something that could be seen as undermining the value of the printed magazine itself. However I think that handled well it should actually improve and enrich the reader experience of the magazine to have a more active presence online than a standard magazine webpage with little content. A weblog is someting ARK over here in Finland should really think about. So much Kudos to Arkitektur I will follow your weblog as best I can, and add to my knowledge of Swedish Architecture.

• 3D Model of Helsinki - A 3d Model of Helsinki
• Alvar Aalto Foundation - Keeps alive the Architecture of Alvar Aalto.
• ARK The Finnish Architectural Review - With some of its magazine content online a nice place to start.
• Association of Finnish Architects’ Offices (ATL) - Helps you choose a relevant Architectural office.
• Association of FInnish Interior Architects (SIO) - Find an Interior Architect to help you.
• Association of Finnish Landscape Architects (MARK) - Find a Landscape Architect to help you.
• Design Forum Finland - Finnish Design, Architecture and the Visual Arts.
• Design Museum - Museum of Finnish Design in Helsinki
• DOCOMAMA Finland - Conserving Buildings of the modern movement.
• Finnish Architecture - Where you’ll see some good photos of recent Finnish Architecture and a list of all Finnish Archtectural offices.
• finnish-architects.com - Some sort of portal for a few architects willing to subscribe but with some information non the less.
• Finnish Association of Architects (SAFA) - Finlands Association of Architects.
• Finland Builds - Best of Finnish Architecture 1992-97.
• Helsinki Utopia’s - Presentation of idealiasations of Helsinki.
• Korttelit - Helsinki centre maps, photos and information on the architects that built them, every building in the centre covered.
• Kultturi.net - List of Links to Architecture and alll other cultural activities on the net.
• Museum of Finnish Architecture (MFA) - Exhibitions all year round etc. Slightly motheaten but excellent.
• Ptah - Academic Architectural Magazine old editions published online, part of Alvaar Aalto Foundation.
• Rakennustieto - Building information group with an online bookshop. main page.

UPDATE

Two organisations you can get unemployment insurance from as an Architect working in Finland.

• IAE
• YTK

Update: My feed path has changed also so anyone subscribing to one of my feeds should check it and resubscribe at the same address.