{"id":708,"date":"2007-03-11T20:56:41","date_gmt":"2007-03-11T20:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.journeytorussia.co.uk\/2007\/03\/11\/tracking-the-route\/"},"modified":"2011-07-14T10:24:32","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T09:24:32","slug":"tracking-the-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/tracking-the-route\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking the route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been playing with a few methods of tracking our route and displaying it on the site whilst we&#8217;re on our trip.<\/p>\n<p>Couple of reasons for doing this, but mainly it&#8217;s there to show our progress, and if anything goes wrong, where we were at the last upload.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;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).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;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&#8230; then I can start working on the upload function&#8230; ideas \/ thoughts&#8230; help!? <a href=\"mailto:matthew@journeytorussia.co.uk?Subject=GPS%20Help%20Email\">email me<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Click image to see larger version<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelondonbiker.com\/lb\/route_angle_large.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"452\" alt=\"KML File Visualisation\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelondonbiker.com\/lb\/route_angle_small.jpg?resize=500%2C452\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been playing with a few methods of tracking our route and displaying it on the site whilst we&#8217;re on our trip. Couple of reasons for doing this, but mainly it&#8217;s there to show our progress, and if anything goes wrong, where we were at the last upload. I&#8217;m working on a way of pulling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/tracking-the-route\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tracking the route&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-russia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}