Stevens Creek Reservoir Bike Trail
This trail starts in Los Gatos, takes you thru Saratoga, Stevens Creek Reservoir, Cupertino, where you finally start your return to Los Gatos. The ride is 29 miles and takes about 2 hours and 45...
View ArticleGoogle Map route maker, geo coder
A while back I was experimenting with Google Map APIs and created a simple page to allow you to create a route (by clicking on the map) and let me find out the longitude and latitude of an address....
View ArticleElevation Chart in Flex
I’ve been unhappy with the dojo based elevation charts I’ve created from my hikes and bike rides, so last night I decided to create a Flex version of the elevation chart for the October 14th ride on...
View ArticleElevation Chart in Flex with Google Maps
You can mix DHTML and Flex in one page without too much effort. Here is how you do this: Add a DIV for the DHTML element that you wish to include after the embed Flash tags. Include the Google Map...
View ArticleGPX Player with Flex & Google Maps
The Route Player that I’m working on is coming along. The most difficult part of this pet project is finding time to spend on it. Anyhow, now it can read the GPX file (using Google Map AJAX APIs),...
View ArticleLake Lexington Bike Trail
This morning, Allen and I went for bike ride around Lexington Lake. The ride started and ended at down town Los Gatos. The ride was 11.72 miles and took an hour and a half. The ride is relatively easy...
View ArticleHow to embed Google Maps in Flex
Create your Flex application as you would normally do, design the UI and set aside a rectangle in which you wish to display Google Maps. In the HTML wrapper for the Flex application, add a DIV for the...
View ArticleSmooth Route Animation in Google Maps: panTo vs. setCenter
In my first attempt to animate a route on Google Maps, I used the GMap2.setCenter method. This provided for a spotty animation: As the marker moved along the route, the background map (as you can see)...
View ArticleHow to add a Flex control to Google Maps
You can add a Flex control to a Google Map by taking advantage of DHTML DIVs and z-order tags. Here I’ve defined a Flex control to display the elevation chart associated with a route. In Flex, I...
View ArticleFull screen route maps with elevations
The route player is updated to allow full screen maps (with auto resize). In addition, it now has both the elevation/distance & elevation/time charts. To calculate the distance I used the following...
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