Map your walk at www.routiki.com

Dan Andrews said:

A number of existing mapping sites are not easy to use. Routiki.com is
a new mapping site with a difference. Our goal is to build a user-
friendly-mapping site for you to map, measure, and share all of your
outdoor activities. Whether you are new to mapping your walks or you
already have your own mapping site, then you are still welcome to try
routiki.com anytime.

It's N. America and needs cookies.
--
Peter.
You don't understand Newton's Third Law of Motion?
It's not rocket science, you know.

PeterC said:

Dan Andrews said:

A number of existing mapping sites are not easy to use. Routiki.com is
a new mapping site with a difference. Our goal is to build a user-
friendly-mapping site for you to map, measure, and share all of your
outdoor activities. Whether you are new to mapping your walks or you
already have your own mapping site, then you are still welcome to try
routiki.com anytime.

It's N. America and needs cookies.
--
Peter.
You don't understand Newton's Third Law of Motion?
It's not rocket science, you know.

Hi Peter,

Routiki.com is for anywhere in the world for which Google maps has a
resolution suitable for your routes. If you search for routes then
only places that have routes will be selectable. This is confusing at
this time, but as routes are added all over the world then that will
be less of a problem. By showing you only the locations that actually
have routes we then we save you the time of sifting through empty
searches. Still, this concern would suggest that looking into
improving searching or looking into an alternate way to browse routes
is important for our users.

Yes, Routiki currently uses cookies and requires a JavaScript capable
browser like Firefox or Internet Explorer 7. Currently we use cookies
for only two purposes: (1) language switching (i.e. French or
English); and (2) for remembering your login.

Regards,
Dan

Dan Andrews said:

PeterC said:

Dan Andrews said:

A number of existing mapping sites are not easy to use. Routiki.com is
a new mapping site with a difference. Our goal is to build a user-
friendly-mapping site for you to map, measure, and share all of your
outdoor activities. Whether you are new to mapping your walks or you
already have your own mapping site, then you are still welcome to try
routiki.com anytime.

It's N. America and needs cookies.
--
Peter.

Hi Peter,

Routiki.com is for anywhere in the world for which Google maps has a
resolution suitable for your routes. If you search for routes then
only places that have routes will be selectable. This is confusing at
this time, but as routes are added all over the world then that will
be less of a problem. By showing you only the locations that actually
have routes we then we save you the time of sifting through empty
searches. Still, this concern would suggest that looking into
improving searching or looking into an alternate way to browse routes
is important for our users.

Yes, useability is v. important with web sites (and software).
I'll have another look.

Quoted message said:

Yes, Routiki currently uses cookies and requires a JavaScript capable
browser like Firefox or Internet Explorer 7. Currently we use cookies
for only two purposes: (1) language switching (i.e. French or
English); and (2) for remembering your login.

Regards,
Dan

Fair enough. I'm using Opera, so way ahead of IE7 :p
--
Peter.
You don't understand Newton's Third Law of Motion?
It's not rocket science, you know.

PeterC said:

Dan Andrews said:

PeterC said:

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:56:52 -0700, Dan Andrews wrote:
> A number of existing mapping sites are not easy to use. Routiki.com is
> a new mapping site with a difference. Our goal is to build a user-
> friendly-mapping site for you to map, measure, and share all of your
> outdoor activities. Whether you are new to mapping your walks or you
> already have your own mapping site, then you are still welcome to try
> routiki.com anytime.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

It's N. America and needs cookies.
--
Peter.

Quoted message said:

Hi Peter,

Quoted message said:

Routiki.com is for anywhere in the world for which Google maps has a
resolution suitable for your routes. If you search for routes then
only places that have routes will be selectable. This is confusing at
this time, but as routes are added all over the world then that will
be less of a problem. By showing you only the locations that actually
have routes we then we save you the time of sifting through empty
searches. Still, this concern would suggest that looking into
improving searching or looking into an alternate way to browse routes
is important for our users.

Yes, useability is v. important with web sites (and software).
I'll have another look.

Quoted message said:

Yes, Routiki currently uses cookies and requires a JavaScript capable
browser like Firefox or Internet Explorer 7. Currently we use cookies
for only two purposes: (1) language switching (i.e. French or
English); and (2) for remembering your login.

Quoted message said:

Regards,
Dan

Fair enough. I'm using Opera, so way ahead of IE7 :p
--
Peter.
You don't understand Newton's Third Law of Motion?
It's not rocket science, you know.

Google Maps do work in Opera, I use 9.24.

See my walk from yesterday:-
http://gpssharing.com/map/ted/display.html?track=roych_clough

and my 'home' page
http://gpssharing.com/display_index.php?user=ted

Ted

Ted said:

PeterC said:

Dan Andrews said:

On Oct 23, 8:53 am, PeterC <[email hidden]> wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:56:52 -0700, Dan Andrews wrote:
>> A number of existing mapping sites are not easy to use. Routiki.com is
>> a new mapping site with a difference. Our goal is to build a user-
>> friendly-mapping site for you to map, measure, and share all of your
>> outdoor activities. Whether you are new to mapping your walks or you
>> already have your own mapping site, then you are still welcome to try
>> routiki.com anytime.

Quoted message said:

> It's N. America and needs cookies.
> --
> Peter.

Quoted message said:

Hi Peter,

Quoted message said:

Routiki.com is for anywhere in the world for which Google maps has a
resolution suitable for your routes. If you search for routes then
only places that have routes will be selectable. This is confusing at
this time, but as routes are added all over the world then that will
be less of a problem. By showing you only the locations that actually
have routes we then we save you the time of sifting through empty
searches. Still, this concern would suggest that looking into
improving searching or looking into an alternate way to browse routes
is important for our users.

Yes, useability is v. important with web sites (and software).
I'll have another look.

Quoted message said:

Yes, Routiki currently uses cookies and requires a JavaScript capable
browser like Firefox or Internet Explorer 7. Currently we use cookies
for only two purposes: (1) language switching (i.e. French or
English); and (2) for remembering your login.

Quoted message said:

Regards,
Dan

Fair enough. I'm using Opera, so way ahead of IE7 :p
--

Google Maps do work in Opera, I use 9.24.

See my walk from yesterday:-
http://gpssharing.com/map/ted/display.html?track=roych_clough

and my 'home' page
http://gpssharing.com/display_index.php?user=ted

Ted

Yes, I occasionally use GM and other such maps, but most of them are little
better than Autoroute - when the scale shows detail, the overall picture is
lost. Mind you, it's a good, concise way of recording walks for other who
might be interested (Dragon's Back looks good).
--
Peter.
You don't understand Newton's Third Law of Motion?
It's not rocket science, you know.

In article <[email hidden]>,

PeterC said:

Fair enough. I'm using Opera, so way ahead of IE7 :p

I'm using Firefox, so way ahead of Opera ;-). It works fine in Firefox,
though I really think the site could do with a page or two explaining
what it is and how to use it, as being hit with a Google Maps interface
straight away could be intimidating/confusing if the punter doesn't know
what the site is and what it's for, particularly if s/he's come straight
from a search engine. An About section would go down well. It would also
be interesting to know how the site aims to make money, for surely
that's its purpose going by the rather long and detailed (and pointless)
legal agreement on the signup page.

<techtalk>
I suspect that others have done similar mashups as it's not so hard if
you know a bit of Ajax and familiarise yourself with the service API. A
very good site which tells you all the tech you need to know about
mashups, and details all the important APIs, is
http://www.programmableweb.com/. If I had the time on my hands I'd be
very tempted to do a walkies mashup myself, to go with my nascent
walkies blog so that I could illustrate walk descriptions with routes,
but unless I have it off on the lottery I don't suppose I'll ever be
able to make the time.
</techtalk>

Fred
--
Walkies blog to follow soon at http://www.fredriley.org.uk/weblog/walkies.html

Fred R said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

PeterC <[email hidden]> wrote:

<techtalk>
I suspect that others have done similar mashups as it's not so hard if
you know a bit of Ajax and familiarise yourself with the service API. A
very good site which tells you all the tech you need to know about
mashups, and details all the important APIs, ishttp://www.programmableweb.com/. If I had the time on my hands I'd be
very tempted to do a walkies mashup myself, to go with my nascent
walkies blog so that I could illustrate walk descriptions with routes,
but unless I have it off on the lottery I don't suppose I'll ever be
able to make the time.
</techtalk>

Fred
--
Walkies blog to follow soon athttp://www.fredriley.org.uk/weblog/walkies.html

When I did my 'mashup' there were very few around. Now if you know
JavaScript it is easy, even if you don't, just cut and paste the
examples from Google and 95% of what you need will work, if you use
Firefox.

Now there is even Googles KML format, which does most of what you
want.

But fixing some of the obscure 'features' on different browsers is a
challenge!

Ted

Peter and Ted,

Thanks for pointing out Opera 9.24 to me. I've just finished testing
with Opera 9.24 and routiki.com is now Opera 9.24 ready. There is one
small issue with Opera 9.24, however, the issue also applies to
maps.google.com.

The issue on both routiki.com and maps.google.com is that the right
click on the map results in Opera's popup menu showing instead of the
map's popup menu showing. Since the map's popup menu is for added user
convenience then it is not a show stopper for either application, but
it will be on my list of issues.

Opera really seems like a nice browser. I like the speed dial on the
new tab, although, I haven't utilized it yet. Thanks again for leading
me to this browser.

Cheers,
Dan

Dan Andrews said:

Yes, Routiki currently uses cookies and requires a JavaScript capable
browser like Firefox or Internet Explorer 7. Currently we use cookies
for only two purposes: (1) language switching (i.e. French or
English); and (2) for remembering your login.