Today was the official beginning of Fall. But you wouldn’t have guessed it, it was 22 and Sunny here in Amsterdam. We really missed out on summer weather here in Amsterdam this year so today was exceptional. Jeniece and I decided to dust off the touring bikes and go for a little ride. We go biking regularly, we’ve even biked to France and back, but this summer was just not that nice for it so we weren’t out as much. Anyways this is the first year I have a GPS unit, so I turned it on during our ride so I’d have a birds eye view of the course we took for later. So here are a couple of pics of us out on the ride and the map to show our mini ride. In the future rather than taking a screenshot, I’d like to embed the interactive map in my blog with the track and photos on the map. Google now allows you to embed nice flash maps in your blog, but not with custom layers drawn on which is what I’m doing, and embedding a javascript google map control is a bit heavy for just a blog post. I’ll have to add making a Google map bike ride UI to my todo list ;-).
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1 Chad // Sep 24, 2007 at 12:55 pm
Just got a GPS yesterday. I’ve been fooling around with geotagging posts for a while, more to check out where things are and remember where I’ve been. There’s a nifty plugin for wordpress that I’ve been using [http://hensler.ca/?page_id=4], but haven’t taken full advantage of it. I’ve been waiting for something a little more full-featured to come along.
2 travischoma // Sep 24, 2007 at 10:02 pm
Cool thx, I’ll check out the plugin and see what I can do with it. Right now I have the lat/long coordinates coming out of a database and javascript code which draws GPolylines based on those points. I saw your page, how are you adding your placemarkers, programatically or via the WP plugin?
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