{"id":2708,"date":"2012-12-13T14:22:50","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T20:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=2708"},"modified":"2012-12-13T14:22:50","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T20:22:50","slug":"20654-a-retrospective-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/20654-a-retrospective-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"20,654: A retrospective, Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2709\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/photo20000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"401\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/photo20000.jpg 401w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/photo20000-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Photo #20,000: IA 10 becomes SD 46 north of Hawarden, July 20, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The 20,000th photo stored in my archive came during a trip to northwestern Iowa, to travel IA 60 for a third time and clinch the few remaining roads in the area. It&#8217;s one in a cluster taken at the South Dakota state line where IA 10 goes north to become SD 46.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest and best tool that has helped me manage my collection is iPhoto. In 2009, when I got a new computer with new iPhoto and could add locations to photos instead of just keywords, that brought new ways to sort (despite some flaws in the programming).<\/p>\n<p>I have some unique crossovers in my photo-place-locations. I have both Delaware County, Iowa, and the state of Delaware; Lincoln, Iowa, and Lincoln, Nebraska; and of course Washington, DC, and a bunch of Washington Counties.<\/p>\n<p>By the numbers, through Nov. 30 (about 11\u00bd years of photos), here&#8217;s what has been categorized:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Seven highway ceremonies under three different governors, including all the major ones <a href=\"http:\/\/www.connecttristates.com\/news\/story.aspx?id=683218#.UMUBUs2DBUN\">except the Fort Madison bypass<\/a>. Certain politicians and reporters were at multiple ceremonies as well, but none at all of them.<\/li>\n<li>36 states, three provinces, and DC with photos, six film-only. States with the fewest pictures: Maine (1), Rhode Island (2), Massachusetts (4), Connecticut (6), and Oregon (6), all film.<\/li>\n<li>660 photos related to US 20 (515 outside Black Hawk County)<\/li>\n<li>975 photos in Tama County<\/li>\n<li>Over 7,000 that are tagged as not highway- or sign-related, although my rules aren&#8217;t rigid for that.<\/li>\n<li>11,559 in Iowa \u2014 55% of the total \u2014 followed by Missouri (1310), Illinois (1226), and Texas (!) (700).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what the iPhoto map of Iowa looks like. Since pins disappear as you zoom out, a US map wouldn&#8217;t look as intimidating.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2739\" title=\"iowaiphotomapsm\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/iowaiphotomapsm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/iowaiphotomapsm.jpg 640w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/iowaiphotomapsm-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo #20,000: IA 10 becomes SD 46 north of Hawarden, July 20, 2012. The 20,000th photo stored in my archive came during a trip to northwestern Iowa, to travel IA 60 for a third time and clinch the few remaining &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/20654-a-retrospective-part-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trip-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2708"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2740,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708\/revisions\/2740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}