Hi Jean,
I'm on the road with a garmin etrek hxc wanting to place info of travels on my wordpress website. Help me to understand how to use your application.
The best answer to your question would be a screencast, but today I'm out of office and home, so just do not have this possibility. I would add screencast by Monday morning. A part of answer to your questions can be found in Help
Step by step instructions section, it also has 5 min amateur video with terrible accent.
Now some text instruction. Procedure from importing data to getting url for embedded view for your blog would take 3-5 minutes, but when put it words it takes long dull paragraphs.
Typical procedure could be:
1) Get tracks and waypoints out of your etrex in gpx fromat, most common software is MapSource
2) Waypoints and tracks are imported into g4ng.com
(acceptable formats: gpx, kmz, kml, plt and wtp). Use green "Import" button in main menu. Imported data is found in Waypoints//Owned and Tracks//Owned lists. Read help on
waypoints,
tracks,
maps and images import. You may also want to add blog entry to your report, especially
geotagged one as most of information you would want to publish in your blog at worldpress of course.
3) Create a collection of data.
Select data you need to publish (own data is found in: Waypoints//Owned; Tracks//Owned; Images//Owned), put it into tray by selecting data row (single click on name) and putting it into tray with
"add to tray" button in data menu. When all the data to be published is found in tray, push
"save tray contents as new collection" button, give name to collection.
4) Give open access to collection
(so far you are the only one who can access it). To do this, find your collection in Collections//Owned list. Push
to open the collection.
Before you publish, create slug for collection, which is a must as it becomes part of collection's unique address, e.g. g4ng.com/collections/
pedalin-across-usa/. Slug is adited by pushing
. Optionally, edit title
and description
.
Now push
in collection menu, chose "
Make this object public" option, and close the next window that would confirm current access settings.
Ready. "
Link to open view" button now appears in collection menu. Push it to open the view in which your data can now bee seen by everyone. Note, that if you add/remove data from collection, it also takes effect on open view. Be careful with editing slug as changing it you also change the address at which data is accessible in Internet.
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Now you have several options to include data into your blog. Basic rule is that the more interactive the embedded view is, the more restrictions it would face from your blog's administration.
The options and url-s to access them are listed in collection's public view in "
Embed" section. Options are:
- iframe (interactive);
- Gadget url for iGoogle, Wave, Facebook etc (interactive);
- Plain image (not interactive, generated of iframe view) to add to forums with more restrictions like this one.
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Hope this can help. Would add screencast shortly.
