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Friday, September 25, 2009
Trip viewer
The Spot Trip Manager is a great site, but I wanted a little more control over the layout and operation of my SPOT maps, and especially wanted to store my own SPOT data. I started working with Google Maps during the Iron Butt Rally, and got comfortable with version 3 of the API.
When SPOT announced support for XML data access, I decided to build my own trip viewer. A Perl script downloads the XML data every 15 minutes, parses it, and inserts new items into a MySQL database on my server. A PHP script displays trip data on a Google Map.
I've converted all of my SPOT maps over to my STV system. Click on the 'SPOT' link in the header to view the most recent map, and to get a list of available trips.
Posted by bnc at September 25, 2009 4:33 PM