I’ve been playing with a few methods of tracking our route and displaying it on the site whilst we’re on our trip.
Couple of reasons for doing this, but mainly it’s there to show our progress, and if anything goes wrong, where we were at the last upload.
I’m working on a way of pulling out the GPS data from the Tom Tom Rider, converting it to a sensible XML format, then creating a KML file for download (which will contain a GPS position every 60 seconds), and a google maps file (which will contain a GPS point every 4 hours).
I’ve got the KML uploads sussed, now I just need to find some way of stripping out all of the data (except one every 4 hours) and converting it to a google maps format… then I can start working on the upload function… ideas / thoughts… help!? email me
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Fantastic adventure guys, Great idea,
I look forward to seeing more. I’m looking to do something similar in the sense of tracking my holiday for the folks back home to see on a website. I could do the download thing but that’s going to be a little inconvienient – I’ve come across a product called trackstick which seems to do the job automatically (no download required as far as I can understand). I’m not 100% sure I ‘like’ the supplier though so I’m looking for another product that does the same thing. If you happen to abandon your idea on the Tom-tom or come up with an automatic way to use it, let me know will you.
As to your other problem, if you’ve got to download anyway, why not load it into something like XL, create a formula to ‘pick out’ the info you want, sort your data on the result of that formula and delete all the rest. Simple. Takes two minutes and if you’re going to be doing the download anyway?
Cheers – hope you have a smashing trip, sounds excellent.
Terry.