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[[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ blog], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 21:29, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
== Your map - highliting your map with red drawing ==
Hi Kundrt. Thanks for a very useful pages. Happy for your courage to travel by hitch - hiking. We love this kind of travel but would love to have some kind of a map tracking our yourneys and we just love your one. How can we proceed, please? --[[User:Mik013|Mik013]] 17:30, 16 August 2016 (CET)
:Hi. I think that Kundrt isn't very active anymore here, let's see! Your question inspired me to figure out how he made this map. One way to log your trips is on www.hitchlog.com. It's a kind of hh diary which is quite nice. Check that site. And now for the map Kundrt made. It's made in Google Fusion Styles and the input is a KML file. This means you need to create a KML file with your trips (lines) in it. There are different ways to do it, this is how I did it. You need: Google Earth, Google My Maps, Google Drive and Google Fusion Maps. All of these are for free, the first is an installable program, the other are webbased services (or websites). In Google My Maps you can draw lines. In the past the number of lines was limited to about 18 or so (if you drew more, My Maps would not always display them all). You can save your map in Google Drive. Since you need to draw more lines than fit in one Google My Maps map, you need to make more, so name them wisely. E.g. I draw 15 lines in each map, and save them as "hitchhike trips 001-015", "hitchhike trips 016-30" etc. If you have drawn all lines and saved everything, you can export each individual map "as KML" from Google My Maps. You can load these KML files in Google Earth, which allows you to save all of them (merged) as one (big) KML file. You need then in Google Drive to add Google Fusion Tables app. The way to do this is explained here https://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/2527132?hl=en&topic=2573107&ctx=topic Once you have installed the app to Google Drive, you can start Google Fusion Tables app. When you do this, you will be prompted to "Import new table", this is where you choose the merged big KML file. Pfew!!!! It's not so easy and a lot of work.. obviously but the result looks slick. Thanks to your question, I found this all out, and I just created my own cool map: https://fusiontables.googleusercontent.com/embedviz?q=select+col2+from+1kkhyp-UjobDola_820_lqlhlRrNJ164qbpfSrucX&viz=MAP&h=false&lat=51.28058058188785&lng=14.601520124999979&t=1&z=5&l=col2&y=2&tmplt=2&hml=KML How much work was this? Well, it took many hours / days to draw the 369 lines in my map. It took an hour to save, copy, merge, save and import everything... Note, my map contains my trip until 09.2006, or about 35% of my total mileage --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] ([[User talk:Fverhart|talk]]) 01:57, 17 August 2016 (CEST)
::Hey Mik and Frank,
::I don't use internet that much nowadays (and don't hitch that much either) but I plan to update map and some HW pages during winter.
::That map at my profile I made almost exactly how Frank described. But it used to be much easier before Google screwed maps. Now it's really limited. I also added one or more columns to Fusion table and deleted some useless columns. And it added extra work to it, now I'd have to convert all kml files from Google Maps or Google Earth to my kml file with colums exatly like in my Fusion table before uploading it there.
::Then I touched Fusion table's limitation, you can see it when you zoom out my map (I think it can show max. 100000 points or something.). So I've found CartoDB. It works better and seems easier to understand styling the lines, add a legend etc. See my map there: https://kundrt.carto.com/viz/34469d1c-688b-11e5-88b5-0ea31932ec1d/embed_map But it also has some limitations. And it probably changed name and pricing (no free account anymore?).
::I want to add my bike + train trips to the map, so I will search for simple and not limited solution. I guess I'll have to use free javascript library (leaflet or something else) and create simple website for it. And I plan to buy gps tracker, I guess converting gpx from it will be much easier than drawing lines by hand. --[[User:Kundrt|Kundrt]] ([[User talk:Kundrt|talk]]) 14:58, 25 August 2016 (CEST)
