I’m replacing the hand-made static route maps on the walk profiles with Google Maps. It’s taking me a while to encode each route but they should all be done soon. See the profile pages for
The White Cliffs of the Seven Sisters
King Beorthwulf’s Gardens (Benington Lordship)
Bodiam Castle
Fortress of the Black Swans (Leeds Castle)
as examples.
Benefits of this approach:
a) you can zoom out to see where the route is relative to London and the rest of the country
b) you can zoom in to see details of the route
c) you can switch from “Terrain” view to “Satellite” view and get a highly detailed aerial image of the route
Once I start getting the hang of the Google Maps API (Application Programming Interface), I ought to be able to add nifty new features like pop-out photos showing on-the-ground views from selected points along the route of a walk.
— DW
Responses to this topic: 2
Ben said in 3-17-2009 @ 13:22:37
And here is a tutorial for Google Maps made in paper 🙂 (just for fun)
Pretty sure you’ll like it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9TtDecveCE
mooneye said in 3-17-2009 @ 17:57:26
Well, I usually don’t like Google maps on sites like this, but your tweaking of them seems to have been just to my liking. Or else Google maps are better looking than the last time I looked at them.
Nice!