Khao Lak 2004 Blog

This is a great day indeed! Today I and Heinrich agreed on making a project together. More on this when the details is ironed out.

I got some good news from European Space Imaging regarding the price of satellite pictures for the book. Ill tell you more about this later. Thanks!

Today I got a question from a swedish athor, who is writing a book about Khao Lak för Dagens Nyheter Förlag. She wanted to know if I knew what time the tsunami struck the beaches of Khao Lak.

About 25 minutes past 10 local time. And the water was beginning to receed about 10 a clock.

I offered my help in helping out with proof reading for the facts in her book.

It seems a tad silly to go barking at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. I mean everybody does. Still, I cant stop wondering whats going on there.

Everybody who is working with the tsunami catastroph, knows that there is a need for a good map over Khao Lak, but when I asked them if they would like to make a link from their website to the map, they show nill interest.

They take their time to answer one of my three mails tho.. thats nice…

Just wanted to make a short but thankefull note on one great woman, who have not given me a chance to be sloppy with data on a couple of resorts. She didnt give in untill she had convinced me on errors and omited resorts. Thanks alot for your patience, Marianne!

Today I sent a mail to The Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Stockholm and in Thailand and the Police in Sweden, asking them to link to the map.

A SMALL AND BIG UPDATE
Today the map is done! That is huge for me! Five months of work is over with. The first milestone is completed. The map is done. During my vacation I got feedback on a few “small” things in the map that now is corrected.

I am sure that there still is errors in it, and that there are places to add and change. But there is no unknown resorts anymore. No big question marks.

This is the update:
Thanks Heinrich, Marianne and Jan at Fritidsresor for the following updates:
- Arcadia Resort, is what used to be called unknown 7 on the map.
- Grand Diamond Resort and Spa replaces what was wrongly described as “Andamania”.
- Palm Andaman Beach Resort area is corrected.

Remember that today it is only the PDF that is updated. I will come back to you when I get time to do the web map and satellite pictures too.

Today I went to the cemetary where my beloved friend ash is spread out. I brought a card with a personal message for her, but the church was closed and there where no where to put it. For a long time I sat on a simple, wooden bench in the grove on the hill and the sun was shining through a hole in the clouds. It was warm an brigth and I had a long talk with her on that bench.

Today the map is done. The last resort was identified with the kind help of Fritidsresor, Swedish travel agency. Done but not done.. becouse I do want to make the map better. There is a lot of things to do. And I still need to learn how to do the map in a proper graphical way. Also I am sure there is mistakes that needs to be corrected and data that is missing. Well… time will tell…