TravelBlog Route Mapper

With much help from Google!

Apologies for the tech talk - but if you read on you've asked for it :)
I was so excited when I saw that google opened up an API for their mapping system - Google Maps. I've wanted to add this kind of feature to travelblog.org since day one. But the amount of work required to build a system like this from scratch was huge, and the results wouldn't have been as good anyway.

For the techies

So how does this work?
1. Go off to google and get an api key - you'll need to register yourself and sign away various liberties ;) - http://www.google.com/apis/maps/
2. Days of coding and experimenting with javascript and you get something cool.

Basically the algorithm is listen for click, push the points that are clicked into and array, and draw the points and line from these points.

Inspirations:
Jwebbers Blog Post
Paul's Gmap Pedometer - first time I realised that a RTW mapper is possible! and a great little tool - calculates calories and things - great for runners!

Feel free to post in the forum

Ali