Tried various websites and conversion processes but I can't seem to get rid
of my hundreds of waypoints (usually displayed as squares).

Please can anyone advise what steps are required to get a line route map of
my run into my Google Maps account.

Thanks

GB

On 6/23/11 7:01 PM, Green Biro wrote:
> Tried various websites and conversion processes but I can't seem to get rid
> of my hundreds of waypoints (usually displayed as squares).
>
> Please can anyone advise what steps are required to get a line route map of
> my run into my Google Maps account.
>
> Thanks
>
> GB
>
>

Just curious-- why do you save them all?

Well actually all I'm trying to do is find a way to put nice looking maps on
my Wordpress site. I've found a Google Maps Plugin but my Google maps are
full of all these little squares. I want to hide them and just display a
route line, maybe with a marker every km or mile.

Anyway to achieve that?

Thanks in advance for anybody's help.

GB

"W.T. O'Niel" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On 6/23/11 7:01 PM, Green Biro wrote:
>> Tried various websites and conversion processes but I can't seem to get
>> rid
>> of my hundreds of waypoints (usually displayed as squares).
>>
>> Please can anyone advise what steps are required to get a line route map
>> of
>> my run into my Google Maps account.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> GB
>>
>>
>
> Just curious-- why do you save them all?
>

Green Biro <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Tried various websites and conversion processes but I can't seem to get rid
> of my hundreds of waypoints (usually displayed as squares).

> Please can anyone advise what steps are required to get a line route map of
> my run into my Google Maps account.

I wonder if "simplify" is what you want.

GPSBabel:
Simplify routes (simplify)
The Simplify filter is used to simplify routes and tracks for use with
formats that limit the number of points they can contain or just to reduce
the complexity of a route. The filter attempts to remove points from each
route until the number of points or the error is within the given bounds,
while also attempting to preserve the shape of the original route as much
as possible.

Searching for Simplify Tracks leads to lots of how-to web pages.

Some clues:
http://thegrampus.wordpress.com/2008...-guide-update/




--
Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley Lake, CA, USA GPS: 38.8,-122.5

in 41554 20110624 000123 "Green Biro" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>Tried various websites and conversion processes but I can't seem to get rid
>of my hundreds of waypoints (usually displayed as squares).
>
>Please can anyone advise what steps are required to get a line route map of
>my run into my Google Maps account.

Have you looked at http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/profile_input ?
Lots of options.

On 24/06/2011 00:32, Green Biro wrote:
> Well actually all I'm trying to do is find a way to put nice looking maps on
> my Wordpress site. I've found a Google Maps Plugin but my Google maps are
> full of all these little squares. I want to hide them and just display a
> route line, maybe with a marker every km or mile.
>
> Anyway to achieve that?
>
> Thanks in advance for anybody's help.

Is it a Wordpress.com blog, or Wordpress.org (hosted on your own
website)? If Wordpress.com, you are limited in how much you can do.

If Wordpress.org, then you could upload your tracks to GPSies. Then you
can use the iframe option to add the map to your blog, see
http://www.gpsies.com/page.do?page=linkus (Wordpress.org doesn't allow
iframes).

Or there are a variety of Google Maps plugins for Wordpress.org, and I
think some will let you show map with a GPX file as an overlay.
I've not tried any of them myself, though I've used the OSM plugin which
will do this for OpenStreetMap maps.

For the map being full of little squares, it sounds like you are showing
a route, made up of waypoints? If you convert it to a track, it should
be just a line. You can do this with GPSBabel and a transform filter.


--
Craig Wallace
http://craig.neogeo.org.uk
http://www.neogeo.org.uk

Thank you everyone for the ideas. I shall research them this evening (UK
time) and report back to the group.

GB


"Craig Wallace" <craigw84@fast_NOSPAM_mail.fm> wrote in message
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> On 24/06/2011 00:32, Green Biro wrote:
>> Well actually all I'm trying to do is find a way to put nice looking maps
>> on
>> my Wordpress site. I've found a Google Maps Plugin but my Google maps
>> are
>> full of all these little squares. I want to hide them and just display a
>> route line, maybe with a marker every km or mile.
>>
>> Anyway to achieve that?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for anybody's help.
>
> Is it a Wordpress.com blog, or Wordpress.org (hosted on your own website)?
> If Wordpress.com, you are limited in how much you can do.
>
> If Wordpress.org, then you could upload your tracks to GPSies. Then you
> can use the iframe option to add the map to your blog, see
> http://www.gpsies.com/page.do?page=linkus (Wordpress.org doesn't allow
> iframes).
>
> Or there are a variety of Google Maps plugins for Wordpress.org, and I
> think some will let you show map with a GPX file as an overlay.
> I've not tried any of them myself, though I've used the OSM plugin which
> will do this for OpenStreetMap maps.
>
> For the map being full of little squares, it sounds like you are showing a
> route, made up of waypoints? If you convert it to a track, it should be
> just a line. You can do this with GPSBabel and a transform filter.
>
>
> --
> Craig Wallace
> http://craig.neogeo.org.uk
> http://www.neogeo.org.uk
>