Plot your own GPS Data on satellite maps!

Should work under Firefox (1.06), Internet Explorer (6), and Netscape (7.2)

You can use this tool to plot your own GPS data on the map on the left, and share the result with others. You can paste your data in the text box below (either gpx or garmin's tab delimited exported text format), and hit the 'parse' button. This will plot the data, center on the middle data point, and also create a URL from the data. You can send that URL to others for displaying the same map in their browser. The urls can get long and ugly, but they work. Your data is never sent to a server when parsing; it is all done locally. That's what the long and ugly URL buys you.

There are currently a few issues:

Internet Explorer has a limit of around 2000 characters for the length of a URL. So, if you have too many data points, the complete URL will still be generated, but if you try to paste the URL in IE, it will get truncated (but the part that's left will be plotted properly). That URL length limit is true for URL's pasted in the address bar; I'm not sure if it's true for URL's within web pages (i.e., href tag)
Firefox can handle longer URL's, but unfortunately it seems to start trashing when there are more than 811 data points (that's right: 811 points work fine, but 812 points cause Firefox to hang). If anyone has any suggestions on how to get around that, please let me know!
Only one plot can currently be sent, and the color, thickness and alpha can't be customized. If people actually find this useful and use it, I'll add more features

You can click on the "Test URL" button to see what the results will look like when you paste the url in a browser. This is useful for comparing the precision of my compression algorithm (let me know if you get some bad results).

There are several improvements that I'm working on, so keep coming back to check on the progress! (Or, email me to let me know if you have any suggestions)

Speaking of improvements, here's the first one: by default, the generated URL points to the page pubtracksfl.html, instead of the current page (pubtracks.html). pubtracksfl.html is a full page map without this side-bar (which looks awesome when being shown full screen - F11 in IE). If for some reason you want to keep the sidebar, just modify the url in the text box below to use pubtracks.html.