notes from Ken

The other day I wrote about a script to simplify GPS plots for plotting polylines using Google Maps.
The momentum from that finally propelled me to learn enough about this stuff to be able to have the script output this:

(The inlined image is resized to fit into my Wordpress layout, it links to the full image. […]

I was reading Ryan’s post about Google Maps and could not resist hacking together a relatively simpleminded track simplifying script.
It reads a GPX file and prints out the JavaScript necessary to plot the track using the Google Maps API.
Its use of the Google Maps API is pretty simpleminded (it just centers on the begin point […]