Comments on: Online route mapping and social media whilst hiking – sharing the adventure!

By: Tracking Colin – Update | Lightweight Outdoors

Tracking Colin – Update | Lightweight Outdoors — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:35:54 +0000

[...] app was primarily designed to integrate with Twitter, TwitPic and Audioboo – have a look at this page for a bit more [...]

By: daylight_gambler

daylight_gambler — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:31:16 +0000

After a suggestion from Twitter (@andrewish), the app now uses OS Open Space – http://bit.ly/9t9Wy9

It makes more sense having it on an Ordnance Survey map!

By: daylight_gambler

daylight_gambler — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:52:36 +0000

Thanks for your comment Phil – I can imagine it is quite frustrating having a route across Scotland via Shanghai!

I really wanted a solution which used software I already use whilst out hiking – namely Viewranger and Twitter – to minimise battery drain and to make it as easy as possible to use (after all you don’t want to spend half your walk on your phone rather than enjoying your surroundings!).

I look forward to sharing the code in the future (it still needs a bit of testing, and it was rush-developed, so needs a bit of a code tidy up!)

By: PhilT

PhilT — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:25:17 +0000

You make it sound so easy…..

This is going to be a great resource – I’ve been playing with a combination of mapme.at and Google Latitude – mapme.at works in a a similar way, but overlays onto an open source map which lacks the functionality of Bing and Google IMHO. I’ve also had some issues with Latitude locating me in bizarre places, most recently Shanghai, which kind of messes up the map!

Really looking forward to seeing the code, I think alot of people are going to VERY interested in this.
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