This is what I get for procrastinating. I won’t be staying at the “official” OSCON hotel, the Doubletree. Since I really enjoy Google Maps lately, I’ve started one for this year’s trip. The blue marker is the Oregon Convention Center. The red marker to the east is the Doubletree. The red pin to the north is my hotel, the Courtyard by Marriott. For distance, it’s no better or worse than the Doubletree. Of course, as so many of my friends will be at the official hotel, I’ll likely spend a lot of time there anyway.
I’m sure I’ll add more to this map later. Such as the locations of all the good (and not so good) bars, not to mention the Oregon Brewers Festival.
We (my wife’s coming this year) will be staying at the Red Lion. One of my co-workers is coming too, he’ll be at the Red Lion as well. Al is going to be at the Doubletree.
I couldn’t get in at the Doubletree because it’s too expensive. Well, we could have stayed there, but it would have meant spending my per diem on it, which I’d rather not do.
Here’s a link to the the Google Map I did last year…
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=117219566395833875306.000001138834b15fde2f0&ll=45.525592,-122.665358&spn=0.028863,0.056562&z=14