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NEW FEATURE: Share your location
28/05/2008 | Posted by Nick | Permalink
Showing your current location or activity on your own website or blog just got easier. Today we have rolled out a suite of new features that make it easy location-enable your website. It's the perfect solution to answer the question "Where are you?".
As well as the existing tools to show your current activity we have added a GeoRSS Location feed and Last location map.
Location feed
The location feed is a GeoRSS feed which automatically updates with live public tracks. Each time a track is made public it is added to the location feed. It’s great to add to your blog or website to let your friends know where you right now or where you have been. For those of you not familiar with GeoRSS don’t worry. They do the same as a standard RSS feed but also include geo data plotting your last known latitude and longitude.
Last location map
The last location map updates a map that can be displayed on your blog or website. It shows your last location when using Map My Tracks Mobile and is updated each time you make a track. All you have to do is embed a small line of code on your blog. That’s it.
Here’s my last location map.
Privacy
Your privacy is important to us which is why both the location feed and last location map need activating before they can be used. This is done on your profile page. Only public tracks are included in these features. Just as before, if you make a track private it remains private and only available for the track owner to see here on this site.
Don’t forget that it is also possible to embed a complete track on your site with replay tools. This has been available for some time but it does hurt to highlight how to do it.
To embed a track on your site will require a short line of code that is available when viewing any public track. To copy this code first load the track that you wish to embed. In the sidebar click Share/export then Copy the code to embed the map on your site.
Hope you enjoy the new tools.
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