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santobugito · Newbie Joined: 31 Oct 2008 Posts: 13

Whats the feeling of putting maps on walking blogs.

I know the OS map is copyrighted, so that out.

I'm thinking of taking my GPS track log from memory map, and redoing the map by hand with navigation and direction notes, distances and directions and important landmarks, a la walkingbritain.com style.

I'm gonna trial this over the next few days on the Ingleborough / Twistleton scar walk on my blog (the latest entry), I'll post when I've done it and see what you lot think.

Sean
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Geoff_C · Verbal Joined: 14 Jul 2007 Posts: 106 Location: Cheshire

You mean something like my outline maps that I produced at one time, see an example here (click the Outline Map icon).

A quicker alternative (if you know enough about programming and webmastering) is to use OS OpenSpace to display your track on real OS maps hosted on their site, provided your site remains strictly non-commercial.

Beardedgit · Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 1:37 pm Post subject:

Try Umapper, they've just updated so that it'll import data from most mapping software. It's free, uses Microsoft Virtual Earth, Google, OpenStreetMap or Yahoo, it's flash-based, no copyright issues.

http://www.umapper.com/

Beardedgit · Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 2:41 pm Post subject:

Here's a link to an example I just created - I saved a Memory-Map route as a .GPX file, then imported it into Umapper, ends up like this: >>> http://www.umapper.com/maps/view/id/13551/

santobugito · Newbie Joined: 31 Oct 2008 Posts: 13

Jeff

Seen your site before possibly on livefortheoutdoors, very impressed with the writeups, being added to links on my site as well for future reference.

UMapper looks good, will give that a go. However looking to annotate it a bit, so will probably use both eventually, with something similar to Jeffs with annotations and the zoomable map on umapper for a zoomable view.
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Beardedgit · Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 3:01 pm Post subject:

Umapper has tools for adding symbols, lines, shapes, markers with text pop-ups etc. Have a play - costs nowt!

Beardedgit · Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 10:16 am Post subject:

Here's a better example: http://beardedgit.com/?p=1080

yetanotherben · Verbal Joined: 15 Sep 2008 Posts: 64 Location: Up North

Morning,

You could also try 'map my walk' too...they use a Google API, which is copyright free as I understand it...might be worth mapping out then using a screencapture to well, capture your screen!

w ww.mapmywalk.com
www.download.com - lots of free screencaptures here ('snag it' is really good for editing them but is £25)

Ben

yetanotherben · Verbal Joined: 15 Sep 2008 Posts: 64 Location: Up North

I've just checked and they still have screen hunter for free, which is one that I used before Snag It.

http://www.download.com/ScreenHunter/3000-2192_4-10063246.html?tag=lst-9&cdlPid=10732691