wordpress xml google maps plugin

some guys are tracking their routes with their navigation systems, as most of them offer this feature. you ride the route and the device is logging the actual way you drive. via usb it’s easy to read out the log directly or import the recorded track in some software and export the logs from there. ending up in some xml,kml or gpx file (hopefully)!

tested with garmin 775T successfully!

if you want to embed gps data into wordpress, there is a beautiful easy way to do this! check out the wordpress plugin at xml google maps!

use this wordpress plugin to visualize gpx data from a gps tracker including speed data and altitude information! parse kml files automatically and display the track / route data on a google map – it just looks brilliant!

find some examples on the author’s page: www.matusz.ch

so far, so good! but: there is more! geotagging devices became affordable these days – to hook up a gps tracker to a digital camera (there is even cameras with built in gps – nikon P6000 i guess), enriches the pictures with the location information! cool right? why not persist this info forever directly in the picture – after years, one might not be able to remember where a picture was taken!

btw: playing around with decoupled (from the cam) gps loggers or trackers is a mess! the synchronization of gps data and pictures requires a syncing software and works by matching timestamps – not exact, not real-time, not recommended!

now, photographer might want to display the photos (if geotagged) on a google map – why else geo tag it, right? and here it coems: there is an integration of xml google maps plugin with another wordpress plugin available: nextgen gallery! and this is really awesome – just upload pictures with gps info to wordpress nextgen gallery and find this on your blog: