Google Map for India Photos
I have added the Indian Bicycle Tour to the Bicycle Tours Google Map section in the tab above. India was a challenging one to draw a track for because there is so little information for it in Google Maps. I had to go into Google Earth and put markers for the places where we stayed and then export this as a KML, and then modify my GPX Draw application to read the KML. Once that was done I went through the markers and added the cycling information.
I have also changed the campsite icons to small points because they made everything pretty crowded and the path could no longer be seen if you were zoomed out. I am thinking about having some sort of hover effect on the icons to save more space.
The tile-layer method of handling large number of points seems to be working well, I have added a lot more points now but the performance is still reasonable. Another option would be to use the new feature in Google Maps API which allows zoom specification for polyline points in order to increase performace.
Click the image above to go to the map.
