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Old 05-02-08, 12:35 PM   #1
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I have just added a new section completely devoted to Map and GPS trails of India. I know not many use GPS to map their route, but the effort has to start some where and I believe this is the right time to do it.

In case you have already mapped few routes, please do share them with the rest of the community.
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Old 05-02-08, 05:20 PM   #2
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Re: India maps and GPS trails
again,the age old request:
a. A wiki collection of the same. atleast a common unified landing page with multiple tracks available.
b. a va va voom linking with Google maps that allows one to click on the trail for a particular GPS trail.

a better idea I have to contribute. routes can have attachments of KML files. This is something I can do

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Old 05-02-08, 09:02 PM   #3
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a. A wiki collection of the same. atleast a common unified landing page with multiple tracks available.
At this point I don’t actually see the need for going in for a wiki since member’s contribution to sections which ought to be under wiki is still very limited (travel guides). I don’t think wiki would be all that necessary for GPS trails related threads, until we start getting multiple trails for the same destination with a slight variation and even in that case moderators can append the first post with multiple trails.

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b. a va va voom linking with Google maps that allows one to click on the trail for a particular GPS trail.
This currently isn’t possible with vBulletin, but I will try to implement this through external files.

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a better idea I have to contribute. routes can have attachments of KML files. This is something I can do
Zip and txt files are already allowed and I will also add kml file to the upload option as well and increase the upload size limits for these files as well.

Edit: kml and kmz file types added and size increased to 1mb for these and for zip files.
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