Interactive Map of Australia
Submitted: Wednesday, Dec 23, 2009 at 20:16
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lindon
Hi there All.
My wife, Lin, and I are about to embark on our "around Oz" trip and would love to be able to indicate (graphically) to our kids and friends, on an outline road map of the whole of Australia, exactly where we have been and currently are at any stage of the trip. Does anyone know of a website or of any software that will allow us to achieve this?
Many Thanks.
Have a safe and happy Christmas and great 2010.
Cheers.
Don.
Reply By: The Explorer - Wednesday, Dec 23, 2009 at 20:30
Wednesday, Dec 23, 2009 at 20:30
Hi
Try Google Earth.
Cheers
Greg
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Reply By: Member - Scooby (WA) - Wednesday, Dec 23, 2009 at 21:09
Wednesday, Dec 23, 2009 at 21:09
Hi Lindon,
I have done this using a Spot locator that sends back your location to e-mail address's that you can nominate. Your position is plotted in Google Earth.
Regards
Scooby
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Reply By: Member - Kiwi_In_Aussie (Wagga - Wednesday, Dec 23, 2009 at 21:14
Wednesday, Dec 23, 2009 at 21:14
Maybe this is what you could do
SPOT messenger with tracking option will do this and if you link it to JasonJonas website you get a record of where you are/have been and an emergency device all in one :-)
SPOT HOMEPAGEJason Trip manager websiteA trip I did to Broken Hill
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Follow Up By: Member - mark f1 (VIC) - Saturday, Dec 26, 2009 at 13:08
Saturday, Dec 26, 2009 at 13:08
Looking at`spot on the website as I read it you would go thru a lot of batteries having it on tracking mode all of the time or do you turn it on intermittently?
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Follow Up By: Member - Kiwi_In_Aussie(Wagga) - Tuesday, Dec 29, 2009 at 13:42
Tuesday, Dec 29, 2009 at 13:42
I have 'done' the Canning and had spot running in tracking mode every day for the 24 days I was away - only turned it off once I had made
camp each day.
I have recently 'done'
Cape York and back (depart Wagga) same thing.
I have just got back (about 10 minutes ago) from 'doing' the
Vic High Country 4 day trip
I have yet to change the batteries
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Follow Up By: Member - Kiwi_In_Aussie(Wagga) - Tuesday, Dec 29, 2009 at 13:44
Tuesday, Dec 29, 2009 at 13:44
mmmmm- I see jason didnt track me!!
I will have to see what went wrong -((((
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Follow Up By: Member - Kiwi_In_Aussie(Wagga) - Tuesday, Dec 29, 2009 at 13:53
Tuesday, Dec 29, 2009 at 13:53
correction
I just remebered I did change the batteries after the CSR and before the Cape trip - they hadnt actually run out - I just wanted to be sure
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Reply By: Member - Fred B (NT) - Wednesday, Dec 23, 2009 at 23:12
Wednesday, Dec 23, 2009 at 23:12
Hi Don,
do you have a
HF radio? If you have the latest Codan or barrett you could join
HFoZ (click on this link for more info) and you could send email, text, and even GPS positions as often as you want.
regards
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Reply By: Richard W (NSW) - Thursday, Dec 24, 2009 at 08:31
Thursday, Dec 24, 2009 at 08:31
Don,
Another option but not as reliable as SPOT is GPSgate by Franson. This in an application that allows the signal from a GPS reciever to be split to two mapping applications. I use it to run Oziexplorer and Copilot together on occasions. One of the side benefits is that with a modem (I use my bluetooth phone) the GPS is able to send a continuous stream of data to Fransons servers. People who are interested in your trip can see where you are by logging onto the Franson site.
You can also run Google Earth at the same time and it can also show your location but only on your PC.
Downside is that you need a phone signal and you pay for the data stream.
I also understand David is working on something for this site.
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Reply By: Member - Andrew (QLD) - Saturday, Dec 26, 2009 at 13:39
Reply By: Member - Norm C (QLD) - Saturday, Dec 26, 2009 at 17:31
Saturday, Dec 26, 2009 at 17:31
Google maps is a fairly simple (but certainly not automatic) way to do this. You would need to update manually periodically or each day.
I used it to map our route for a
Kimberley trip for a blog recently.
This is the link to the Google map I did of the trip.
And
This link is to the Blog for the
Kimberley trip.
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Follow Up By: Member - Norm C (QLD) - Saturday, Dec 26, 2009 at 17:35
Saturday, Dec 26, 2009 at 17:35
As a member here (looks like you are 'visitor' currently), you could use this site to do a blog on your trip and update the blog regularly. This way, apart from showing your position, you can tell the story of your trip and post pics for family, friends and others to see, just by clicking the link to the blog.
I'm in Tassie at the moment and plan to start a blog soon for just that purpose.
Norm C
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