Mapping software

[pietplezier]

Hi,

I just completed my road trip in the USA.

Now I am making a photo album, and I also want to include maps of where I have drove my car.

Can someone recommend me some good software?

Thanks.

[Robert Schaller]

I don't know if it is the best choice, but I think you could easily do this with MS Streets and Trips. And it's not all that expensive. You can get a copy through our link here on RTA. Bob

[Mark Sedenquist]

Now I am making a photo album, and I also want to include maps of where I have drove my car..

We are still working on ours, (RTA), but in the interim I would suggest using the services of SmugMug. Excellent photo sharing software and they incorporate mapping services that are among the best of breed for this type of an application.

Mark

[pietplezier]

Nah, smugmug looks nice, but is not where I am looking for.

I am looking for a program, where I can select the roads where I drove...

Thanks for your replies so far. Strange that this kind of app is not 'invented' yet... :/ I guess I have to do it the old fashioned way, with a fat marker and scan my maps :)

Do you have any idea when this future is online here at roadtripamerica.com ?

[Mark Sedenquist]

Nah, smugmug looks nice, but is not where I am looking for.
I am looking for a program, where I can select the roads where I drove...

It sorta works out the same way, the SmugMug program plots the locations of the photos either by known GPS coordinates or by a complex algorithmic program that then plots the route on an overlay highway map.

Virtually every mapping program allows you to plot a route with a marker that is displayed on the map -- Streets and Trips is the one most often used by roadtrippers who frequent this board, but roadtripper "Chuck C" has found a lot of success with Plainglobe.com and one of his maps can be viewed in this thread about a trip around Lake Michigan.

Thanks for your replies so far. Strange that this kind of app is not 'invented' yet... :/ I guess I have to do it the old fashioned way, with a fat marker and scan my maps :)

Just be careful with what you do with those scanned maps -- for instance they couldn't be published on a site like RTA or any other reputable publisher because of copyright issues.

Do you have any idea when this future is online here at roadtripamerica.com ?

Well, six months ago, I fully expected to be in beta by now -- Now, I am hoping for a beta release in early Summer 2006

Mark

[emana]

Similar to Smugmug Maps, but much easier to use:

Panoramio.com

[Mark Sedenquist]

Similar to Smugmug Maps, but much easier to use:
Panoramio.com

Well, since both applications are using the Google Maps platform, that makes sense. Are you a member of Panormio?

mark