Directly Google map GPX files
I’m not sure if either Google or Yahoo maps API directly accepts the gpx file format or not. My brief search of their documentations suggests that they don’t. You need to convert the gpx file that you get from your GPS device to KML or GeoRSS or … before you can use it. I wrote a simple utility to directly map my GPX files. Here is a sample.
May 28, 2007 at 4:08 pm
Nice! Did you walk over somebody else’ property in order to get from “Fairview Plaza” to “Bayview Ct.”
May 28, 2007 at 5:38 pm
That is the feature/limitation of the accuracy of the current civilian GPS devices. It is accurate within a 15 feet radius. I guess that is one reason why games such as GeoCaching is popular with some GPS owners. If it was too accurate, I guess geocaching wont be as much fun.
November 21, 2007 at 4:48 pm
To read the actual GPX file, now I directly use the Google XML APIs rather than pre-process the GPX and create JavaScript. Here is how you can use the XML API.