Work is taking me to China. First to Lanzhou and then to Xi'an, neither of which I've been to before. My Geko GPS is sort of my security blanket when I travel to new places, so I always download waypoints of important places before I go, like the hotel where I'm staying, and the airport or train station. It was a bit of a challenge finding coordinates, since none of the mapping sites I visited had street-level details for these cities. However, the organizers of the conferences I'm going to (the 2nd Asia CLiC State and Fate of the Asia Cryosphere Conference and the ISO/TC211 Plenary) included simple diagrammatic maps of hotels and meeting places. I was able to correlate the diagrams with the street layouts visible in Google Earth. So I'm all set.
I'm excited to be going, although it remains to be seen how much time I get for sightseeing. It's for certain that I'll visit the Terracotta Warriors excavation, and perhaps some Buddhist caves.
I'll post photos and a travelogue so stay tunned.
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