A Map and a Video

They say pictures are worth a thousand words and I hope they're right. Never having made annotated videos and maps before, nor embedded such things in blogs before, this took one monumental effort.

So first off my artistically enhanced Google map of the area. The blue line represents the Buddha Trail, officially known as the Daibutsu Hiking course, which runs from a little North of Jochi-ji in Kita Kamakura to a little North west of the Great Buddha (Daibutsu). The red region denotes the grounds of the former Nomura Research Institute, somewhere within which the incinerator is to be built (if this location is chosen; there are three others). The three yellow squares mark the locations of the three sites for which the local Kamakura government have sought World Heritage status, referred to in the previous post: Keiwaizaka Pass in the North, the Hojyo Tokiwa residence right next to the proposed incinerator, and the Daibutsu Pass several hundred metres North West of the Great Buddha. It's a proper Google map so you can use the controls to navigate and zoom in and out.




The other thing is a video clip of a walk to the site of the proposed incinerator (the grounds of the former Nomura Research Institute). I'm holding a little compact camera in one hand while I'm walking so the motion is a little shaky. Apologies for that. The walk takes about 9 minutes out of which I've cut about half.




For completeness here's the full length movie too:

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