A Map solution for ocean racing?

[dommy]

Hi we need a map system (a dynamic visible map) on our site that allows us to plot the location of a boat as it travels across the sea. We want to be able to update it automatically from a file that has the long/lat information - Does anyone know of any software/apps other than google api that can do this?

Cheers!

[raf]

here you go --> http://www.qontrol-vision.com/showmap.php
it would be very easy to just request the
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latlongtype=decimal&latitude=45&longitude=25
http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat=45&lon=25&scale=25000&icon=x
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=45,25&spn=0.05636,0.011996&t=k
and dynamically fill in the querystringparameters with the long/lat value from the file.

if you want to make it a bit nicer, then you could use a server side scripting language to only take out the maps and strip off all the ads etc.