All help gratefully accepted... I think we could do with a little development wiki?

m

Good idea! Any particular flavour you'd like? there's all sorts. Have you set one up before?

I have no worries I can do it but if someone's done one it's sometimes quicker.
We have loads of space to do it.

Up to you :-) Something simple like MediaWiki or PMWiki - can set up a space on thelondonbiker quite easily if you'd like?

m

With 10gb of webspace why would I do that? :)

I have good complete control here, with my own dedicated server, so it's easy to do whatever is needed.

I'll have a look tomorrow and see what I can set up.

In the meantime, who's on board? Send me an email or post here!

Currently I am playing with some scripts (perl/php) using open source scripts available and adding own functionality. I have a very rough version, where I can udate the EXIF information in a collection of images, using gpx files (what many GPS software can output). With this information I managed to draw tracks using the google maps api, an add push pins with thumbnails to the map. Multiple images for one push pin is possible. Clicking on the image will send you to a page with en enlargement of the image.

For friends I maintain a small website with 17000+ pictures (about 1GB). I am trying to add this functionality to this website. The idea is that a user only has to uload all the gpx files he or she has, and all the pictures that should be shown on the map. Then click 'generate' and wait. That's it.

I have some things to work out though ;-) You can only have so many points on the map. So I have a perl script to make sure there are no more then x points on the map, no matter how many offered in the gpx files, and maintaining the track on the map usable, there are some cool calculations for this on the Internet. Google maps has some nice tricks to speeds things up, so rendering is quicker and you can user more points in the map ect ect.

Then of course I have to automatically split up all the pictures and automatically make groups of pictures, one day for each group. The each day has its own google maps map, and one simpler overview map of the whole trip. That's the idea. And in the end the user should be able to upload almost any gps file, the system should recognize the gps data that is uploaded.

It will take some work though, and I currently am also busy with other things. But when I have some code to share, I am happy to do so.

Some of the detail of this discussion done elsewhere, but FWIW I think we should start small. There are many things that could be done. What Magna describes sound very good, but it sounds like a lot of work. A simple map of garages, good roads, hu communities woud be very helpful to travelers and not that much work. Also, my map of HU cummunities worldwide got very slow, and that was nothing.

The HU map is here.
http://www.jacobsherman.com/gis/