Adding a whole bunch of GDB files to one very large map

[Malindi]

Hi gang,

I'm currently on a trip around the world and eventually I want to add all the tracks covered in one contiguous line to a world map. It'll be big... Want I want to do is link from my website (own hosted and own domain) so that when you click on it, you see the whole country/world and you can scroll around to see where I went. Aside from tediously zooming in on mapsource and doing screenshots to glue together in Photoshop, is there a better way of doing this? I don't want to upload anyhting to Google Maps or some such as I want to ensure I rentain the output on my own server (don't trust Google, Apple, FaceBook and that sort of stuff).

I will start by adding it all to one mapsource file, but then what?

Thanks for any ideas.

Kevin

PS: Website is here www.nohorizons.net

[OneEffinName]

If you know anything about servers (e.g. Linux, Apache, PHP) and how your web site is hosted - search for any PHP/Apache based map server. Your ISP might let you install LAMP based server apps.

However, to me, thats way too much work. I would just load up a trip/day at a time into a GPX file and imbed a google map. Or put it on SPOT adventures or that other mapping adventures free site (cant remember the name right now). Then spend the rest of the time riding.

Not sure why you don't "trust" google maps. Worried someone will take your data? Or the server wont work?

[DRTBYK]

As OneEffinName suggested, imbed a Google Map (you'll need a Google Map Dev ID but it's free) in an iframe on your webpage. You will need to convert your single Track to a KML file (GPSBabel) then you can host that KML file on your server and call it from the imbedded Google Map on your page. Google will never touch your Track data.

It should look something like this:

<iframe width="400" height="400" frameborder="0" scrolling="No" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=the_track_file_location_on_your_server.kml&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=some_lat_and_lon-to_center_the_map_on&amp;spn=some_lat_lon-to_bound_the_google_map&amp;z=3&amp;output=embed&amp;s=your_Google_Map_Dev_ID"></iframe>

Cheers,

[Malindi]

Originally Posted by OneEffinName

Not sure why you don't "trust" google maps. Worried someone will take your data? Or the server wont work?

My issue with Google is that, like FaceBook etc., they will use any data they see fit for their own purposes. Or the program will change later and break a bunch of links on my site or whatever... I am looking for something I can host from my server that I have 100% control over... Maybe I am being silly, but hey ...