Mark's Google Maps

Google Maps are great fun. At the the main Google Map page you can easily generate interactive maps with labels for places and routes indicating driving directions.

If you know a little Javascript, you can also include these types of maps in your own web pages using the Google Maps API. At the bottom of this page, for example, is a Google Map of the UNCA campus with a few handy reference markers. You can zoom in or out, pan left or right, and change the view from the standard map to a satellite image, to a hybrid view, or even to a topographic map.

This page describes a few of the techniques I've learned to deal with these things. In particular, there is information on the following:

• GPXToGoogleMap
  A Mathematica package I developed to translate GPX files to Google Map form
• Cycling Google Maps for the Asheville area
  A collection of Google Maps describing local bike rides I made with the GPXToGoogleMap package
• Encoding polylines
  An algorithm implemented in Javascript to generate an encoded polyline from a list of points.
• Google Map projections
  A few custom map projections implemented with the Google Maps API.

UNCA campus map