Comments on: Improved MSN and Google GPS GPX Waypoint Extraction

by: Josh

Sun, 31 Jul 2005 01:13:13 +0000

Don: the bookmarklet described here doesn’t work for driving directions, only for points of interest. I’ve combined one I wrote with the one here to make a bookmarklet that will work for driving directions, single addresses and points of interest in a local search - http://www.elsewhere.org/GMapToGPX/

Also, badsegue, I found a bug in yours: the regular expression you’re matching on assumes that both latitude and longitude will be \d{1,2}\.\d{6}. But longitude should be \d{1,3}\.\d{6}

by: Don

Sat, 30 Jul 2005 15:50:10 +0000

This is just what I’m looking for, except: it doesn’t work for me either under firefox 1.0.6 or IE 6.0. In both cases, it says ‘Nothing found here.’ and that’s it, even thought the browser is pointing at maps.google.com, and shows a valid route between two points. I even tried with with google’s route example “seattle to 98109.”

Thoughts?

by: Communications From Elsewhere

Fri, 29 Jul 2005 06:58:31 +0000

Google Map Hack

I’ve created a hack for Google Maps which lets you turn driving directions into a GPX file suitable for downloading to a GPS. There are already hacks out there (including non-hackish apps using the official API) which let you go the other way–from a …