Has anyone ever used a Map API to display a user's travels?

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Obviously we already have the maps themselves available in Corona.

What I’m looking to do is record a user’s walk and then send the GPS data to a service which could be used to generate a map image with the route marked. This could then be shared to Facebook/Twitter/etc, which I have seen other apps do.

This app does something similar (see the “routes” screenshot):

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/walk-map-my-walk-gps-pedometer/id307861492?mt=8

Does anyone have any experience with something like this, and could they recommend a way/service to do this?

#2

Been a while since I asked this, but just wanted to check again and see if anyone has any thoughts on this.

Google Maps themselves allow you to draw a route using polylines: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/polyline-simple 

but that’s only useful if you have a webpage containing a map.

What I would ideally like to do is post a link to the users facebook wall, and if they click that they are taken to google maps with the route lines drawn. Does anyone know if that is possible? I know that sometimes when you post a link on facebook it gives you a preview of the page, not sure if that would work for this though.

#3

Been a while since I asked this, but just wanted to check again and see if anyone has any thoughts on this.

Google Maps themselves allow you to draw a route using polylines: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/polyline-simple 

but that’s only useful if you have a webpage containing a map.

What I would ideally like to do is post a link to the users facebook wall, and if they click that they are taken to google maps with the route lines drawn. Does anyone know if that is possible? I know that sometimes when you post a link on facebook it gives you a preview of the page, not sure if that would work for this though.