Showing your actual route on your blog

[hellcoder]

Hi together,

first of all, SORRY to open a new thread, i'm sure there must be a bunch of threads about this, but i couldn't find any? (too much ?)

I'm wondering what you guys are using to show your actual route on your blogs (those who have one)?!?

I've seen a lot of different ways how people show their actual track
- Photo of Real World Map painted with thick red pen
- Google Maps Route (using many Destinations)
- Google Earth Screenshot from imported KMZ files
- Usage of rather big communities that offer blogs with included gps tracking
- More or less well done custom implementations

All of the visualizations i've seen have their major drawbacks, a lot of work, just average routes, ...

My question is, isn't there any nice (free!) system that can be included in my blog where i get an application to upload my tracks from (different brand) gps devices where the tracks get automatically compressed and uploaded to somewhere that it will show nicely on a map (on my blog)?

I myself am a .NET Programmer, and i already put a lot of effort in building my own system, but it's far away from "easy to use" and has no compression (recalculation of tracks), so i might run out of space soon (i'm using google fusion tables to store my tracks). Not to mention all the bugs

To get a better understanding what i'm searching for you can have a look here: 1World2Go |

It's still in Alpha stage and i'm testing around a lot, so don't be confused about "USA2012" being in Europe :P

Any hints welcome.

Cheers
Moritz

[Sam I Am]

You might want to consider using the Google API, and maintain on your site a list of coordinates that the map displays. I found Mike Williams' Google Maps API Tutorial to be a really good site, full of examples and source code, that can be used to see how the API works.

[Hemuli]

With Spot Messenger you can show live map in your homepage.
Only problem with it is that it will show only max 7 days route.

[twenty4seven]

Originally Posted by Hemuli

With Spot Messenger you can show live map in your homepage.
Only problem with it is that it will show only max 7 days route.

Hello Hemuli.

You can embed Spotwalla which shows routes of any length indefinitely.

[Hemuli]

Originally Posted by twenty4seven

Hello Hemuli.

You can embed Spotwalla which shows routes of any length indefinitely.

Thanks twenty4seven, need to check this out!

[John Ferris]

I like SPOT adventures because you can post pictures along the route and text.
Spot Adventures | SpotAdventures

[Hemuli]

Originally Posted by John Ferris

I like SPOT adventures because you can post pictures along the route and text.
Spot Adventures | SpotAdventures

Yes, this is also nice.
I guess it has same limitation as Spot messenger tracking system that it supports max 7 days?
So, on a long trip if you do not have internet connection, you will loose your tracklog.
Please, correct me if I am wrong.

[John Ferris]

Originally Posted by Hemuli

Yes, this is also nice.
I guess it has same limitation as Spot messenger tracking system that it supports max 7 days?
So, on a long trip if you do not have internet connection, you will loose your tracklog.
Please, correct me if I am wrong.

If you save it to SPOT adventure it stays there it does not go away after 7 days.