Geoblogging - how do I keep friends updated while I walk 100km for charity?
February 23, 2008 7:52 PM   Subscribe

In the summer me and three friends will be doing a 100km 30-hour walk for charity alongside lots of other teams. I was hoping to come up with a way in which friends, family and donors can check on our progress in real time, from afar.

Ideally, what I would like to do is create a web page, which would incorporate a Google Maps, er, map. Within this map would be the route we've walked so far illustrated with chronological numbered points. Clicking on a numbered point would bring up maybe a quick comment or a photo that I will have posted from my GPS-capable phone (it's a Nokia N95). Or maybe the numbered point will be a hyperlink to a blog post further down the page. But anyway, it's not really the layout I'm having trouble envisaging, it's really how I would go about this that I'm having problems with.

I am pretty techy so am comfortable with some web and server programming but I'm not really looking to do this as a way of learning a new language so the easier, more out-of-the-box solution the better!

So, I'm interested in seeing examples of how this thing has been done before, as it must surely have been. Extra points for examples with technical explanations of how it's been done (i.e. via such and such API, with Javascript, or using Ruby on Rails)!

Many thanks.
posted by uk_giffo to Computers & Internet (2 answers total)
 
A friend of mine is doing exactly this on a sponsored tour of Europe. See this page.
posted by _dario at 8:08 PM on February 23, 2008


Not exactly what you're asking, but cool nonetheless. This allows you to press an "OK" button, and others can track your progress on Google Maps. The device is expensive, and there's a subscription fee.
posted by boeing82 at 9:48 PM on February 23, 2008


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