GPS Visualizer update: Auto marker lists + more

A few changes to GPS Visualizer lately which are worth announcing:

* Google Maps: a lot of changes here, although a few are under the hood
where most people won't notice them. The most notable is the ability
to have GPS Visualizer automatically generate a list of waypoints and
display it next to the map. You can click on the items in the list to
pop up the markers' info windows, or just mouse-over them to see the
corresponding "tooltip" on the map. Here's an example:
http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/example...rker_list.html

* When creating Google Earth files from tracks, you can now choose to
have every trackpoint turned into something like a waypoint, that when
clicked upon shows you all the available data for that point (speed,
altitude, etc.) Look for "Draw as waypoints" under Track Options in
the GE form: http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/map?form=googleearth

* Input files can now be zipped (.zip) or gzipped (.gz). I don't know
if anyone will take advantage of this, but it does save upload time.

* A few more input file formats are supported, thanks to GPSBabel.
(If you upload, for example, a .gdb or .mps binary file, the server
uses GPSBabel to convert the file to GPX and then reads it normally.)

* I'm still trying to figure out ways to make it easy to make maps from
geotagged photos. For now, GPS Visualizer will recognize useful
fields called "url" and "thumbnail" in plain-text data and will use
them to build a map with pop-up thumbnails at the relevant locations.
Example: http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/example...photo_map.html

Have fun, and please let me know if you run into any problems.

If you're not yet familiar with GPS Visualizer's "Do-It-Yourself
Mapping," please visit the home page (http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/),
check out the examples, etc.


Adam Schneider
Portland, OR



adamschneider.net
www.gpsvisualizer.com

Adam Schneider wrote:
A few changes to GPS Visualizer lately which are worth announcing:

* Google Maps: a lot of changes here, although a few are under the hood
where most people won't notice them. The most notable is the ability
to have GPS Visualizer automatically generate a list of waypoints and
display it next to the map. You can click on the items in the list to
pop up the markers' info windows, or just mouse-over them to see the
corresponding "tooltip" on the map.


The waypoint list is a great addition. Thanks Adam :-)