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How to do shared mapping online?

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  • Started 12 years ago by Greenroofer
  • Latest reply from Kenny
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  1. Greenroofer
    Member

    I'm involved with running the Bicycle User Group at work. We're looking to get more people riding their bikes to work. One barrier that newcomers cite is that they don't know the best route and don't have anyone to ride with to show them the way.

    We like to set up an online map that shows all the routes that people take to the office. It would end up looking like a spider's web of routes all converging on the one point in west Edinburgh. We'd like to let people add their own routes in, but be able to display the whole thing to anyone who's interested.

    New users could then see what routes other people use, and might be encouraged to try it for themselves.

    Question is, what tool to use for this? Cyclestreets? Google Maps? I'd prefer it if people didn't have to 'register' or sign up for something to use it.

    Any suggestions or advice gratefully received...

    Posted 12 years ago #

  2. Arellcat
    Moderator

    I used to use the Pedometer gugolmap hack:

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

    to see how far it was from A to B, and to save routes for future reference. My work's BUG has come and gone on the 'pooled routes' idea, but Bike Route Toaster fits the bill pretty well, although you do need to register to generate public routes.

    On gugol's own system you can have a public map with multiple routes (drawn as lines) saved within it. Of course, you still have to register to add to it.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  3. wingpig
    Member

    Individuals could each map their own route without needing to sign in by using something like gmap-pedometer.com, which could then be harvested, exported and uploaded to a common map.

    EDIT: Duh. Ninja'd. Couldn't see Arrelcat's post when I posted mine, presumably as it caught Spytfyre false-spam disease with the multiple links.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  4. chrisfl
    Member

    It would be a manual process, but if you can get a GPX track of routes to work(eihter via tracking software on a smartphoner, then it's actually very straightforward, to display these on a map.

    There are instructions on the basics here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenLayers_Simple_Example

    then to add a GPX track just use something like:
    // Add the Layer with the GPX Track
    var lgpx = new OpenLayers.Layer.GML("Route1", "route1.gpx", {
    format: OpenLayers.Format.GPX,
    style: {strokeColor: "green", strokeWidth: 5, strokeOpacity: 0.5},
    projection: new OpenLayers.Projection("EPSG:4326")
    });
    map.addLayer(lgpx);

    Posted 12 years ago #

  5. Kenny
    Member

    It's a long shot, but if you had all of the routes in Garmin Connect, you can upload them to a web app that I wrote a while ago which allows you to see lots of individual routes all on one map at the same time. I wanted to be able to see all the places I had run throughout Edinburgh, y'see, and couldn't find anything to do it. So I wrote a web app to do it, and anyone can use it to create a single map of multiple activities.

    If you want to give it a go, let me know and I'll drop you an email with the details.

    Posted 12 years ago #

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