Hi all - need some IT assistance.
I have set up a website using iweb on a mac (www.jacksonvilleorbust.co.uk) and have the use of a SPOT GPS messenger / tracking device.
What I want to do is embed a map (google or otherwise) into my website so peeps can track my progress in almost real time.
Using info in the SPOT help pages I did some cutting and pasting and thought i'd been successful, however I took the transmitter out for a ride today and friends have independently told me that according to the map I was sat in my house for the entire duration of the ride!
I have tried using a Google API key with some html from the SPOT adventurer site but iweb didn't seem to want to accept this, any thoughts on where I am going wrong?
Keep it simple please guys my IT skills are very basic!
Ta muchly
Spag
If you're running Windows Mobile on your GPS you could use TrackMe to upload a .kml file in real-time to Google Earth. Works really well, until you lose phone signal and your Wife calls out the mountain rescue.
Why not use one of the sites already set up to do this - like Endomondo?
I don't know anything about SPOT but if you need to log into it to see the track then that could explain why you can see it bit people without accounts cant.
If you have a GPX file and your own web space then the following is an easy way of sharing a map
---- http://www.bing.com/maps/?sty=s&mapurl=http://yoursite.com/filename.gpx