RockingDLabs:myHikes

Background

This website exists so that I can browse and share the tracks I have collected with myTracks. The application itself does not provide browsing controls that work with hundreds of tracks nor does it provide a way to easily share a track.

In addition I wanted to try out some new (compared to www.dunmire.org) page frameworks, javascript, and CSS.

myTracks is a free Android app developed by Google. I started using it on my first Android phone and continue to use it on an almost daily basis. I track the walks I take for exercise at lunch, hikes, and travel. Most of the tracks are walking/hiking, though there are a few tracks from skiing and a few others from road trips that I wanted to see mapped.

Credits

This site is built on the work of many others:

Bootstrap: The front-end framework used for this site. It made it easy to adjust the site layout and, through the use of Responsive design, usable on a wide range of screen sizes (think smart phone).
tablesorder: A jQuery plugin that adds client side sorting to tables.
Initializr: This is a template generator that was a big help in getting started.
OpenStreetMap
Thunderforest
MapQuest: For aerial tiles.
OpenLayers: The glue that makes these maps possible.
HTML5-Boilerplate: for ideas on site layout.
jsFiddle: jsFiddle is not used on this site, but I often found examples, or problems solutions, when I used it to lookup up javascript operations that were new to me.
Chip Chapin: Thanks for the simple example of how to automatically put a Last Modified date on the page.

Contact

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