Hi dear Cyclists:

¿ Have you ever wonder how could you possibly embed maps of the GPS track of each ride day, of those multi-day rides in your blog, when you are en route, and have therefore, only a very limited (sometimes critcally) amount of time and computer access ?

Wonder no more, for here may lay the answer to our problems: Wikiloc !

http://www.wikiloc.com

Wikiloc is a free web service that allows you to embedd a Google Map directly in your web page or blog. Furthermore, wikiloc uses encoded polylines to render the GPS track over the Google Map, allowing with this to upload your complete track, with no simplification required (I have uploaded tracks with 5,000 points and wikiloc renders the tracks in an eye blink).

Other sites do not use encoded polylines, requiring therefore simplificating the track to a hundred of points.

So the procedure could be the following: after a long day ride, you enter in your local internet cafe, connect your GPS unit to the rented computer, select todays track, log into wikiloc, upload your _complete_ track (no simplification required) to wikiloc, and get the code to embed the map. Once in your blog or web page, you add the wikiloc-offered code, and voilá ... you have got your blog-embedded Google Map in seconds !

A working example of this drill can be seen in my following new blog:

http://trainingrides.blogspot.com

I sincerelly do hope this little advice could be helpful to you on those multi-day touring rides :-)

Regards