the ExploreShanghai blog

I’ve been playing with the Garmin Communicator Plugin API. There’s a browser plugin for IE and Firefox; once installed you can communicate with your GPS device via Javascript. I’ve managed to integrate this with my development version of the city map, see below! Quite useful if you’re heading somewhere in a strange part of town.

I’m testing out GPS integration for the new version of the City Map! This GPS trace was recorded travelling down Jianguo Lu. It’s not perfect (Shanghai has too many tall buildings which block the signal) but it should make adding bus route overlays much easier

The data was captured using my Garmin GPS