Re: Quikmaps

In article <pan.2006.06.28.21.29.43.333463@xxxxxxx>,
Mark Shroyer <mashroyer@xxxxxxx> wrote:

I had been thinking hypothetically about writing a Google Maps mashup
which would allow me to display detailed bicycle routes on my web page as
a Google Map overlay, but these guys beat me to the punch and then some:

http://www.quikmaps.com/

It's a free (currently beta) service that allows one to create a overlay
of arbitrary paths, labels, and so on, and use that overlay on either a
web-based Google Map or Google Earth.

Here's an example, illustrating my preferred bike route around
Gainesville, FL:

http://www.markshroyer.com/blog/2006/06/28/quikmaps/

I just thought this might be of interest to any other cyclist/webmaster
hybrids around here...

It's nice, but the gmaps pedometer is even nicer for doing bike routes.
It lacks the pins and labels of quikmaps, but the line-drawing routine
is much better conceived for the specific process of route drawing.

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/

It also does automatic on-the-fly mileage calculations, can do
elevations for North America and the UK, and you can save and print
maps, too. I used it to generate this for my club:

http://www.escapevelocity.bc.ca/wtnc.html
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=133325

Pedants will notice that the map on the EV website doesn't exactly match
the gmaps route. This is because I noticed a small error I had made in
mapping the course after I generated the picture for the website. I
corrected the route (and linked to the corrected version), but didn't do
another site graphic.

--
Ryan Cousineau rcousine@xxxxxx http://www.wiredcola.com/
"I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos
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