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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: whitey1 on December 04, 2011, 01:26:43 PM
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Hi all, I want to find a map of australia that I can put up on our fb page and on my thread here http://myswag.org/forum/index.php?topic=15516.0 (http://myswag.org/forum/index.php?topic=15516.0) to track our progress around oz. Just something that I can draw my own route on and add to as we go. Preferably with roads marked on already. Anyone done this? Whats the best way to do it?
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Have you thought about a public google map? I have one that shows all the dog friendly camp sites in vic and if you embedd the link it will show on myswag, not sure about FB thou.
For example. http://maps.google.com.au/maps/ms?hl=en&vpsrc=6&ctz=-660&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=206387224238022326416.00049ddefe022b1564ddf&ll=-37.195331,145.975342&spn=6.990993,16.864014&t=m&z=7 (http://maps.google.com.au/maps/ms?hl=en&vpsrc=6&ctz=-660&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=206387224238022326416.00049ddefe022b1564ddf&ll=-37.195331,145.975342&spn=6.990993,16.864014&t=m&z=7)
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Can you draw in your route. Not just the roads that are marked cause we do a bit of track driving on our trip too.
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You could do as pen.sco suggested, as well as setting up a page on Google Sites.
I Haven't done this.
On our last trip we used Google Maps to plot our trip.
Then Linked it to our site.
September 17th/Oct 15th 2011 (http://www.hairfysh.com/index.php/our-travels/holidays-camping-trips/trip-september-17092011.html)
We then were able to update the different stages of our trip. We would then post updates to FB as we went.
Look into Google Sites as a way of hosting your trip.
Hope this is of some help.
Happy & safe travels
:cheers:
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Similar to pen.sco, grab a snip-it of your chosen google map and take it in to paint and draw in your trip for the day and save it. Or if your got a GPS running Ozi you can do some amazing stuff when combined with google maps.
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Hi,
if you are just doing a simple trip on roads, you can embed them in MySwag from google maps and they are interactive.
i.e. your reader can zoom in on the map anywhere of interest.
Some examples here (http://myswag.org/forum/index.php?topic=18235.0)
cheers
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Ok I found a map with basic roads on it and imported it to paint. Then drew in my route so far. Seems to work ok.
I'd thought of Ozi but gotta remember to set it up to track my progress when we travel. I'll try that for the next leg of our trip.
Its a bit hard to see the route and you cant zoom in but its a start.
(http://i44.servimg.com/u/f44/14/64/23/13/mr__mr10.jpg) (http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=69&u=14642313)
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Hi,
you can use google maps to make a track and export the kml file to Ozi and see it on your new map if you loose your Ozi track.
cheers