Mapping Hacks
by Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson and Jo Walsh
Show tracklogs and waypoints, with Ruby Source
October 29th, 2006 by RichIn _Google Maps Hacks_ we included hack 37 by Tom Carden and Steve Coast that included code to plot waypoints and track logs from a GPX file onto a Google Map.
Tilman Hampl cleaned it up a bit, and got it working on his own server. So you can 
“plot your data on his server.
The top map shows my waypoints from our summer trip to Europe. The second map, of Amsterdam, shows tracks. Slithering through alleys and the like it is a wonder that I had any gps coverage at all in Amsterdam!
I used to like my GPS. I saved track logs and waypoints and had all manner of fun. But I have become partially disillisioned with how really very bad the coverage really is. I still believe in position, but the GPS is not the ultimate answer.
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mhoegh Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 12:12 amThere is a lot of sites where you can plot gpx data. My is www.toposhare.org (http://wms.mapuse.net/cal3/ is the much cooler beta site which soon will be launched). The code is all Open Source and mainly based on http://sourceforge.net/projects/appformap which includes a “gpx to PostGis” lib.
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